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RE: RFA: GCC 4.2.1: Stabalizing coalesce_list's qsort
On 31 August 2007 14:29, Andrew MacLeod wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 14:28 +0200, Richard Guenther wrote:
>> On 8/31/07, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Richard,
>>>
>>>> No, but for trunk if you bootstrapped/tested this. That is, this patch
>>>> is ok for mainline if you did.
>>>
>>> I have not (yet) applied this patch to the mainline. The patched sources
>>> do bootstrap without problems, but I could not find any way to reproduce
>>> the original bug. (ie the problem with a cygwin based mips compiler
>>> producing non-working code whereas a linux based mips compiler produced
>>> working code). I even tried deliberately destabilizing the sort, but the
>>> current mainline sources do not appear to have any requirements of
>>> stability.
>>>
>>> Since stabilizing the sort would slow it down, I thought it best to check
>>> to make sure that it is still OK to apply the patch. ie are we
>>> preferring host independence over compile speed ?
>>
>> Yes. I don't think the slowdown will be noticable.
>
> And if it is, I will fix it by doing something different.
>
And nobody said otherwise when I asked if host independence wasn't as
important as -g independence, so I think we do prefer it at any cost. (Well,
not at /any/ cost, but YKWIM).
(Will submit a patch to the coding/portability conventions at the weekend when
I have some spare minutes).
cheers,
DaveK
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