Re: gcc 4.1 release showstopper on darwin

2005-11-25 Thread Jack Howarth
David, Thanks for the clarification. While one could argue that the breakage was due to an aggressive introduction of changes into gfortran of the gcc 4.1 branch, it is definitely is more honest to say that the Darwin target has been broken for sometime now with the weakref failures in the gcc

Re: gcc 4.1 release showstopper on darwin

2005-11-25 Thread David Edelsohn
> Jack Howarth writes: Jack> My question is whether the gcc 4.1 release would be Jack> held to fix this or will the Darwin target just be marked as broken for Jack> that release? The release will be held. Quoting the GCC development plan: "If ... support for a platform with active m

gcc 4.1 release showstopper on darwin

2005-11-25 Thread Jack Howarth
In case folks haven't noticed, there has been major breakage of the gfortran in gcc 4.1 on Darwin. The problem appears to be due to the fact that weakrefs aren't properly honored in the Darwin linker. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24991 This apparently is the same issue causin