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Re: Should the patch for PR inline-asm/6162 go into 3.4?

"Giovanni Bajo" <giovannibajo@libero.it> writes:

> Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> 
> > (Or put the PR into whatever state is appropriate
> > for ``fixed on mainline, will not be fixed in earlier releases'').
> 
> Since the PR is a regression, our policy says it should stay open until the
> affected branches are discontinued. The rationale is that, even if your patch
> is too intrusive for the branch, it doesn't mean that someone else can't come
> up with a trivial workaround somewhere in the future to fix the regression.

That makes sense to me.

And presumably, if Mark decides we shouldn't migrate the patch, we
would change the target from 3.4.0 to 3.5.0, since it will already be
fixed for the latter.

Ian
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