On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 05:02:11PM -0400, R P Herrold wrote: > >* Tue May 23 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat.com> 3.4.6-3 > >- -fvar-tracking fixes needed for SystemTap (BZ#2438) > - not clear which BZ is referred to, but it is not the > Red Hat one; not in the Cygwin one > (http://www.cygwin.com/bugzilla/), not in the Gnu one > (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/) Red Hat's secret other bugzilla. <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla> --> <http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2438>. > >- add workaround for buggy programs that link in their own unwinder > > and reexport it (#192814) > - probably the Red Hat bugzilla, but bug 192814 is > blocked from review by 'mere mortals' in the general public -- > This implies a security related matter, which are > definitionally important changes Sadly, it seems to often imply "involves big-name customer, or customer who thinks they are big name". But yeah, not being able to review the bug is a bad thing. [...] > and as we see in this case, and after inspection from the > Changelog, and the outlinks it references, that NONE of the > underlying reasoning nor cause for the changes for that GCC > variant may be inspected, without further study than what we > have or can easily access. That does seem to be true in this case. -- Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>