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Re: -Og changes on 4.7.3?
- From: Basile Starynkevitch <basile at starynkevitch dot net>
- To: Gene Smith <gds at chartertn dot net>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 06:53:59 +0200
- Subject: Re: -Og changes on 4.7.3?
- References: <kmpe52$c52$1 at ger dot gmane dot org>
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 09:03:34PM -0400, Gene Smith wrote:
> Could the -Og patches for 4.8 be back-ported to 4.7.3? Or is there
> important 4.8 dependencies that would make this not practicable?
I have no idea about the hypothetical future GCC 4.7.4, but I guess that the general policy would
be to avoid such a significant patch ...
> The patches to add -Og shown on gcc.patches list don't look
> extremely extensive.
But they may depend of other improvements in 4.8
>
> This would be for personal use and not necessarily proposed for
> general release.
For personal use it is so much simpler to just build GCC 4.8 and use it.
No good reason to stick to a patched GCC 4.7
Cheers.
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