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Re: state of 3.2.1-pre: how far from release?
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- To: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>, "geoffk at geoffk dot org" <geoffk at geoffk dot org>, Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "bkoz at redhat dot com" <bkoz at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 16:34:50 -0800
- Subject: Re: state of 3.2.1-pre: how far from release?
--On Wednesday, November 06, 2002 07:20:03 PM -0500 David Edelsohn
<dje@watson.ibm.com> wrote:
Mark Mitchell writes:
Mark> My preference would be to see the load multiple/store multiple
Mark> instructions that are causing the problem disabled. Better a slow
Mark> compiler than a broken one, since David says the problem can come up
Mark> relatively often.
Mark> If the RS6000 maintainers do not want to do that, then David's
Mark> work-around for abi_check.cc is OK.
The failure is not complicated, but does not appear to occur
often, so disabling the pattern does not seem necessary. We can consider
this more for GCC 3.3.
I'm happy to trust your judgement; please check in a change, and mark
the PR as a mainline regression, since we'll not be worrying about it
on the branch.
Thanks,
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Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
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