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Re: GCC 4.2.0 Status Report (2007-05-11)


On 5/12/07, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
Daniel Berlin wrote:
> On 5/11/07, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>> Every time I think we're almost there with this release, I seem to
>> manage to get stuck. :-(  However, we're very close: the only PRs that
>> I'm waiting for are:
>>
>> PR 31797: An infinite loop in the compiler while building RTEMS.
>> Daniel, I see you've been commenting on this; are you working on the
>> fix?  If so, do you have an ETA?
>
> It's not actually a PRE bug, andrew is right.
> None of the statements accessing volatile variables end up with
> has_volatile_ops set on them, which is what is really causing the
> problem.

Thanks -- but that doesn't answer my questions. :-)  Seriously, what I'm
trying to figure out is whether you (or someone) is working on fixing
this, so I can get a sense of the tradeoffs between releasing and
waiting for a fix.

I have two fixes and am currently testing one.


Richard.


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