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Re: Undo earlier g77 patch



  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


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