Bugs introduced in GCC?

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 18:18 -0400, Andrew 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

You're looking at the compressed size.  Uncompressed, this diff is
actually 5.2M.  About 4M of that is patches to GCC itself (the rest is
patches for the Debian packaging files).

There are 138 individual patches in that 4M.  Not sure where they came
from.

Looks like this was reported on Launchpad a week ago:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-4.2/+bug/256797

and it was confirmed, but there's been no other response.