Re: backport of Revision 120684 for Macintel into gcc 4.2.1?

["Richard Guenther" <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>]

On 5/17/07, Eric Christopher <echristo@apple.com> wrote:
> On May 16, 2007, at 8:00 PM, Jack Howarth wrote:
>
> >    Currently gcc 4.2.0 suffers from 90 libjava failures on i686-
> > apple-darwin8
> > including the boehm gctest. Backporting the changes from revision
> > 120684...
> >
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs?view=rev&revision=120684
> >
> > as suggested in...
> >
> >
> > which includes one new failure (Process_5). Shouldn''t the changes in
> > revision 120684 be backported to gcc 4.2.1? Also does anyone know
> > if additional fixes to eliminate these remaining failures currently
> > reside in gcc trunk? Thanks in advance.
>
> Sure, seems reasonable.

Introducing a regression on the branch doesn't sound reasonable.  Also
are those regressions?  Or is the patch referenced strictly specifc to
Darwin?

Richard.