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Re: Backporting gcc_qsort


On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 7:08 PM Cory Fields <lists@coryfields.com> wrote:
>
> gcc_qsort as introduced by Alexander Monakov [0] in trunk for 9.x is a
> great change that defines the order of otherwise-unbalanced internal
> sorts, some of which would otherwise cause bootstrapping failures.
>
> I would like to request that these it as well as subsequent fixups
> (all listed specifically below) be backported to the 8.x branch. They
> apply cleanly to 8.x, and I can confirm that they fix qsort-related
> bootstrap failures at least in my case of crossing x86_64-gnu to
> x86_64-musl.
>
> Would there be any downside to backporting?

It is not something we generally backport.

> The changes that I locally backported and tested successfully were:
> r260216: Introduce gcc_qsort
> r260222: gcc_qsort: avoid oversized memcpy temporaries
> r262092: gcc_qsort: avoid overlapping memcpy (PR 86311)
> r264065: qsort_chk: call from gcc_qsort instead of wrapping it
>
> [0]: https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2018-05/msg00479.html
>
> Regards,
> Cory Fields


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