bug(?): garbage produced by archive_node.get_string

[Pearu Peterson]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Richard B. Kreckel wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Pearu Peterson wrote:
> > > uname -a
> > Linux ath 2.2.18-mosix #1 Tue Jan 9 11:20:28 EET 2001 i686 unknown
>                    ^^^^^
> Just a random bubble: are all affected boxen running Mosixized kernels?

Nope.

> > It seems to me that something gets wrong in C++, not in GiNaC.
> > I have run out of ideas how to fix this garbage --- it is a third
> > Linux system that has this same problem (two Debians, one Mandrake, all
> > have the same gcc version). Any hints are appreciated.
> 
> I am still having no success reproducing this garbage on a variety of
> boxen, including strange IRIX machines.  As to potato, I just recall that
> our's isn't vanilla.  When I was porting to GCC-3.0 I ran into a
> well-documented problem with binutils on that distribution so I had to
> manually update them:
> higgs:~$ ld -v
> GNU ld version 2.10.91 (with BFD 2.10.1.0.2)

Our Linux boxes have:
GNU ld version 2.9.5 (with BFD 2.9.5.0.37) - Debian
GNU ld version 2.9.5 (with BFD 2.9.5.0.16) - MD

> Everything else is vanilla, though.  Especially g++.  However, I don't see
> how binutils may affect the running behaviour.  Mind updating them
> nevertheless?  Do you have any machine where it works or is this a 100%
> failure?

So far the 100%.
I haven't tried our Linux Alpha boxes (RedHat 6.1) yet. There I need to
install GiNaC first ...

Thanks,
	Pearu