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| author | Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> | 2006-09-18 06:00:52 (GMT) |
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| committer | Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> | 2006-09-18 06:00:52 (GMT) |
| commit | 885d8e773765206670c91f3eb92b6c117ba70de8 (patch) | |
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| parent | 736fc567b26263b5f4714eb0d2ed5e1c2fed4b74 (diff) | |
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Discourage using GCC 4.2 for Python.
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@@ -276,6 +276,14 @@ on these platforms without the special directions mentioned here, submit a documentation bug report to SourceForge (see Bug Reports above) so we can remove them!) +GCC 4.2: There is a known incompatibility between Python and GCC, + where GCC 4.2 takes an interpretation of C different from + prior GCC releases, in an area where C has undefined behaviour + (namely, integer arithmetic involving -sys.maxint-1). + As a consequence, compiling Python with GCC 4.2 is not + recommend. It is likely that this problem will be resolved + in future Python releases. + Unix platforms: If your vendor still ships (and you still use) Berkeley DB 1.85 you will need to edit Modules/Setup to build the bsddb185 module and add a line to sitecustomize.py which makes it the |