egcs 1.1b make check problems under 2.0.98

["Jack Howarth" <howarth@bromo.med.uc.edu>]

Hello,
    On linuxppc running Linux 2.1.125 built with egcs 1.1b
and glibc 2.0.98 we are seeing failures now in the make
check of egcs 1.1b. In particular we find that the tests
in libio are failing. For example, when we execute...

g++ hounddog.cc -O2 -o hounddog
./hounddog -b0 < hounddog.inp

...we should see...

Code: -1 followed by 6 chars
Code: 1 followed by 3 chars
Code: 2 followed by 0 chars
Code: -1 followed by 3 chars
Code: 3 followed by 4 chars
Code: 1 followed by 0 chars
Code: -1 followed by 3 chars    

...instead we see...

Code: -1 followed by 6 chars
Code: 1 followed by 3 chars
Code: 2 followed by 0 chars
Code: -1 followed by 3 chars
Code: 2 followed by 6 chars
Code: 1 followed by 0 chars
Code: -1 followed by 3 chars   

There is also a report that this is seen on Intel linux as well.
Could this be due to the recent changes in bits/string2.h?
                  Jack



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