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Re: pr14516 and GCC 3.4
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Gunther Nikl <gni at gecko dot de>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, mmitchel at gcc dot gnu dot org, geoffk at geoffk dot org, ian at airs dot com, Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:10:32 -0800
- Subject: Re: pr14516 and GCC 3.4
- References: <20051130150640.GA38406@lorien.int.gecko.de>
Gunther Nikl wrote:
> Hello!
>
> This PR is about missing USER_LABEL_PREFIX for static variables. The issue
> was fixed for 4.0, but for 3.4 there won't be a fix as stated in the audit
> trail by Mark Mitchell in comment #15. He probably based his decision on
> comment #14, where Geoff Keating states that this bug does only affect
> debugging programs that don't have full debugging info. That conclusion is
> wrong, the bug has a much more severe impact!
Yes, it's true that this is why I thought it was not important enough to
fix in GCC 3.4.x.
However, I am no longer managing releases from the 3.4.x branch, so it's
up to Gaby to decide if he wants to reopen the issue. (I've cc'd Gaby
on this message.)
Geoff's patch in Comment #11 is clearly too big to backport to 3.4.
Both Geoff and Ian are very knowledgeable, and I don't have personally
have any opinion about whether or not the patch in comment #7 is correct
or not, so I don't think I can say anything useful about whether or not
that patch might be a good starting point.
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