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Re: PATCH RFA: Update Go frontend on gcc 4.7 branch
Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> writes:
> Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> writes:
>
>> I would like to update the Go support on the 4.7 branch. As I've
>> mentioned before, Go is working toward a stable Go 1 release. That
>> release is not complete, but it is quite close. The 4.7 branch was made
>> at a slightly unstable point in the process. I've updated the library
>> one more time, and I've spent the week testing the result on a bunch of
>> Google-internal programs. What I have now is not perfect, but it is
>> better than what is on the 4.7 branch today.
>>
>> This proposed patch does include a library update, which is fairly
>> large. However, this update should not be destabilizing. I've tested
>> the 4.7 branch plus this patch on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, and I'm
>> preparing to test it on Solaris.
>
> Unfortunately, this patch introduced several go and/or libgo testsuite
> failures on both Solaris/SPARC and x86 on the 4.7 branch while the
> results were clean before. I've filed PR go/52583 for this, but not yet
> investigated in detail.
Hmmm, the patch just copied code from mainline--did you see these issues
on mainline before? I did not see these issues when I tested the patch
on the 4.7 branch on Solaris SPARC.
Unfortunately I think it may be too late to change things before the
4.7.0 release.
Ian