This is the mail archive of the
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: GCC 4.3.1 Status Report (2008-05-19)
- From: Richard Guenther <rguenther at suse dot de>
- To: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak at gmail dot com>
- Cc: GCC <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 10:57:36 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.3.1 Status Report (2008-05-19)
- References: <4831BD51.9030501@gmail.com>
On Mon, 19 May 2008, Uros Bizjak wrote:
> Hello!
>
> > GCC 4.3.1 is still not ready for release as the x86 direction flag
> > issue (36079) needs to be resolved. We have reached consensus to
> > add a new flag -mcld to allow to work around the kernel bug and to
> > add a configure option to enable/disable this by default.
> >
> > The patch from Uros is implementing the -mcld parts but lacks the
> > configure option part for which no patch exists yet.
> >
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-03/msg00417.html
> >
> > The plan is to create a release candidate for 4.3.1 once the direction
> > flag issue is resolved and 4.2.4 was released. I will announce a
> > freeze of the 4.3 branch once the release process starts.
> >
>
> IIRC, the final word was that the impact of this issue is not high enough to
> warrant adding a separate flag [1] ?
>
> [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36079
It turns out to be more a political and marketing issue than a technical
issue, so it was decided that we should provide -mcld and a configure
option.
Richard.