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Re: RFA: GCC 4.2.1: Stabalizing coalesce_list's qsort
On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 14:28 +0200, Richard Guenther wrote:
> On 8/31/07, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
> > 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 ?
>
> Yes. I don't think the slowdown will be noticable.
And if it is, I will fix it by doing something different.
Andrew