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Re: Undo earlier g77 patch
- To: Craig Burley <burley at gnu dot org>
- Subject: Re: Undo earlier g77 patch
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 23:49:37 -0600
- cc: egcs-patches at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199807162302.TAA14411@melange.gnu.org>you write:
> Jeff, could you apply this to both trunks (main and 1.1)? It undoes
> an earlier patch that resulted from discussions as to how to work
> around a back-end change that itself was recently undone -- in the
> meantime, while wondering why I was seeing certain differences in
> assembler output, I discovered the g77 patch was never really right
> in the first place (though, I can't easily prove it with a test case
> -- I tried).
>
> Since applying this patch restores g77 to the way it's worked in
> basically all FSF releases and in egcs 1.0.x, I'm quite sure
> that applying it won't break anything...moreso than I am that
> *not* applying it won't! (At the very least, if we don't apply
> this patch, i.e. leave the earlier patch in effect, g77 generates
> spurious warnings about statement-function definitions being
> unused when, in fact, they are indeed used.)
>
> tq vm, (burley)
>
>
> Thu Jul 16 13:26:36 1998 Craig Burley <burley@gnu.org>
>
> * (ffecom_finish_symbol_transform_): Revert change
> of 1998-05-23, as it was too aggressive, in that it
> prevented transformation of (used) functions before
> primary code generation.
Done.
Thanks!
jeff