Re: GCC 4.1 Branch Frozen in Preparation for GCC 4.1.2 RC1

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> 
>>>    PR target/30370 (powerpc-unknown-eabispe can't build libgcc2) is a
>>> regression from 4.1.1. A patch was posted earlier this month at
>>> <URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2007-01/msg00600.html>. I have
>>> regrettably forgotten to ping this patch (for which I think David's approval
>>> was only for the 4.2 branch). In any case, I don't have SVN write access and
>>> will need someone else to commit the patch.
>> Joseph, David, do you have any comments about this patch?  The same
>> clearly erroneous code (i.e., the incorrect use of "findstring") does
>> appear on the 4.1 branch.  Therefore, my inclination would be to apply
>> the patch.  However, I'm not able to effectively test the patch, so I
>> would appreciate your feedback.
> 
> I think it should be applied to 4.1 and 4.2 branches.  (For trunk, the 
> issue is fixed properly, by toplevel libgcc removing the need for 
> findstring in conjunction with E500 long double making -mlong-double-128 a 
> supported option in this case so removing the underlying ICE.)

Thanks for the feedback.  David mentioned that he's traveling until
Friday, and I want to let him comment.  So, I've put the PR on the 4.1.2
Status Wiki page, and I will review it before the release.

Thanks,

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