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Re: [tree-ssa] Mainline merge plan
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- To: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>
- Cc: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:35:57 -0500
- Subject: Re: [tree-ssa] Mainline merge plan
- References: <200402251407.i1PE7oc31696@pc960.cambridge.arm.com>
>>>>> Richard Earnshaw writes:
Richard> I've no idea what mudflap is supposed to be for, so it's unclear to me
Richard> whether it's an important part of the compiler or just another
Richard> nice-to-have bolt on. The following patch just disables it from the build
Richard> and does seem to solve the immediate problem of building the libraries.
Richard> Whether or not this is the correct approach somebody else will have to
Richard> judge. A better patch would probably move the gcc thread-detection code
Richard> to the top level and use that do decide what the target capabilities were.
Mudflap: narrow-pointer bounds-checking by tree rewriting.
target-libmudflap used to build on AIX, but fail in the testsuite.
It recently began failing to build. It is not a critical component of
Tree-SSA.
David