In terms of actual volume of patches against upstream, and excluding SVN
updates, the diff from the base Debian 4.2.3-2 version and Ubuntu 8.04's
4.2.3-2ubuntu7 is about 40 KB.
> If so, what is it meant to change?
Matthias (CCed) should be able to give more information on any
Are the statements below true?
Is the Ubuntu patch really 5 MB?
If so, what is it meant to change?
From: John Regehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
...the default C
compiler for Ubuntu [GNU/]Linux 8.04 is a patched gcc-4.2.3 which (on x86)
miscompiles this rather simple function:
int func_1 (void)
{
