Bugs introduced in GCC?

[Jordan Mantha]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Andrew <a.starr.b at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Are the statements below true?
>> Is the Ubuntu patch really 5 MB?
>> If so, what is it meant to change?
>
> The diff  of the current gcc in Intrepid ,as found here [1], seems to
> only be 672 KB
>
> gcc-4.2.3's [2] seems to be 1.1 MB
>
> [1] http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gcc-4.3/gcc-4.3_4.3.1-9ubuntu1.diff.gz
>
> [2] http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gcc-4.2/gcc-4.2_4.2.3-2ubuntu7.diff.gz


Well, those are the compressed packaging diffs which include all kinds
of files. However, Ubuntu's change relative to Debian is an 18 KB diff
which is mostly changelog entries and doesn't add any patches to gcc
itself at all. So perhaps RMS's original question is better sent to
the Debian gcc maintainers?

-Jordan Mantha