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Re: GCC 6.0.1 Status Report (2016-04-15)
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 08:20:34 -0700
- Subject: Re: GCC 6.0.1 Status Report (2016-04-15)
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On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 8:12 AM, Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 04/15/2016 09:10 AM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>>
>> Status
>> ======
>>
>> We have reached zero P1 regressions today (and < 100 important
>> regressions) and the branches/gcc-6-branch has been created;
>> and GCC 6.1-rc1 will be built and announced soon.
>> The branch is now frozen for blocking regressions and documentation
>> fixes only, all changes to the branch require a RM approval now.
>>
>> If no show stoppers appear, I'd like to release 6.1 late next week,
>> or soon after that, if any important issues are discovered and
>> fixed, rc2 could be released next week.
>
> The only issue I'm aware of that I think must be fixed for gcc-6 is the
> protected symbol visibility problem. I've got a good summary from Alan and
> Cary and just need to file the report. I'll get that done today. In theory,
> fixing is "just" a matter of reverting a change from about this time last
> year and any follow-ups.
Before you do that, please take a look at
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/generic-abi/waK1dGiUGvM/7Uid2HH4IQAJ
I have a proposal to mark object file with
NT_GNU_PROPERTY_NO_COPY_ON_PROTECTED
https://github.com/hjl-tools/linux-abi/wiki/Linux-Extensions-to-gABI
It requires changes in compiler, ld and ld.so.
--
H.J.