This is the mail archive of the
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: pr14516 and GCC 3.4
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Gunther Nikl <gni at gecko dot de>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, mmitchel at gcc dot gnu dot org, geoffk at geoffk dot org, ian at airs dot com
- Date: 01 Dec 2005 00:17:16 +0100
- Subject: Re: pr14516 and GCC 3.4
- References: <20051130150640.GA38406@lorien.int.gecko.de> <438E1548.8000904@codesourcery.com>
Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
| Gunther Nikl wrote:
| > Hello!
| >
| > This PR is about missing USER_LABEL_PREFIX for static variables. The issue
| > was fixed for 4.0, but for 3.4 there won't be a fix as stated in the audit
| > trail by Mark Mitchell in comment #15. He probably based his decision on
| > comment #14, where Geoff Keating states that this bug does only affect
| > debugging programs that don't have full debugging info. That conclusion is
| > wrong, the bug has a much more severe impact!
|
| Yes, it's true that this is why I thought it was not important enough to
| fix in GCC 3.4.x.
|
| However, I am no longer managing releases from the 3.4.x branch, so it's
| up to Gaby to decide if he wants to reopen the issue. (I've cc'd Gaby
| on this message.)
|
| Geoff's patch in Comment #11 is clearly too big to backport to 3.4.
Agreed.
| Both Geoff and Ian are very knowledgeable, and I don't have personally
| have any opinion about whether or not the patch in comment #7 is correct
| or not, so I don't think I can say anything useful about whether or not
| that patch might be a good starting point.
I'd defer to Geoff and Ian for the correctness issue. *If* there is an
acceptable patch, it won't be for 3.4.5.
-- Gaby