Re: [Python-Dev] GCC 4.x incompatibility

2006-09-21 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Georg Brandl schrieb: > Is it noted somewhere that building Python with GCC 4.x results in > problems such as abs(-sys.maxint-1) being negative? Yes, it's in the README (although it claims problems only exist with 4.1 and 4.2; 4.0 seems to work fine for me). > I think this is something users may

[Python-Dev] GCC 4.x incompatibility

2006-09-21 Thread Georg Brandl
Is it noted somewhere that building Python with GCC 4.x results in problems such as abs(-sys.maxint-1) being negative? I think this is something users may want to know. Perhaps the "Known Bugs" page at http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/bugs/ is the right place to put this info. Georg