[PING][PATCH] Add patch for debugging compiler ICEs.

[Maxim Ostapenko <m dot ostapenko at partner dot samsung dot com>]

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-Maxim
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Subject: 	[PATCH] Add patch for debugging compiler ICEs.
Date: 	Mon, 04 Aug 2014 21:03:22 +0400
From: 	Maxim Ostapenko <m.ostapenko@partner.samsung.com>
To: 	GCC Patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
CC: 	Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>, 
tsaunders@mozilla.com, Yury Gribov <y.gribov@samsung.com>, Slava 
Garbuzov <v.garbuzov@samsung.com>


On 08/04/2014 09:03 PM, Maxim Ostapenko wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A years ago there was a discussion 
> (https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-01/msg02437.html) about 
> debugging compiler ICEs that resulted in a patch from Jakub, which 
> dumps useful information into temporary file, but for some reasons 
> this patch wasn't applied to trunk.
>
> This is the resurrected patch with added GCC version information into 
> generated repro file.
>
> I've updated the patch that I've posted earlier 
> (https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg01649.html ) according 
> to recent upstream discussion 
> (https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-08/msg00020.html).
>
> The debugging functionality is disabled by default and can be enabled 
> with adding -freport-bug into compile options. It can be also enabled 
> by default with
> --with-spec during GCC build.
>
> There are several directions in which this can be improved e.g:
>
> 1) more user-friendly ways to report bugs (autosubmitting to Bugzilla, 
> etc.)
>
> 2) generate repro in case of segfault.
>
> but having basic functionality (autogenerating reprocase in temprorary 
> file) already seems quite useful.
>
> -Maxim