Re: RFA: GCC 4.2.1: Stabalizing coalesce_list's qsort

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Richard,

> No, but for trunk if you bootstrapped/tested this.  That is, this patch
> is ok for mainline if you did.

I have not (yet) applied this patch to the mainline.  The patched sources do 
bootstrap without problems, but I could not find any way to reproduce the 
original bug.  (ie the problem with a cygwin based mips compiler producing 
non-working code whereas a linux based mips compiler produced working code).  I 
even tried deliberately destabilizing the sort, but the current mainline 
sources do not appear to have any requirements of stability.

Since stabilizing the sort would slow it down, I thought it best to check to 
make sure that it is still OK to apply the patch.  ie are we preferring host 
independence over compile speed ?

Cheers
  Nick