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Re: Second GCC 8.4 Release Candidate available from gcc.gnu.org
- From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, Richard Biener <rguenther at suse dot de>
- Cc: GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 12:46:28 +0100
- Subject: Re: Second GCC 8.4 Release Candidate available from gcc.gnu.org
- References: <20200302104550.GO2156@tucnak> <CAMe9rOprwER_c2_VfacxgtnnqUSL_OjtKQB+jtFzaRyOkLspqQ@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 03:41:06AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 2:46 AM Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > The second release candidate for GCC 8.4 is available from
> >
> > https://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/8.4.0-RC-20200302/
> > ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/8.4.0-RC-20200302/
> >
> > and shortly its mirrors. It has been generated from git commit
> > r8-10102-g0afd41f8e6530b13421679801cf73cb6bef55553.
> >
> > I have so far bootstrapped and tested the release candidate on
> > x86_64-linux and i686-linux. Please test it and report any issues to
> > bugzilla.
> >
> > If all goes well, I'd still like to release 8.4 on Wednesday, March 4th.
> >
>
> I'd like to backport:
>
> commit r10-6965-g577350603a657590c4b54a4a966cb49497e2514c
> Author: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon Mar 2 03:08:57 2020 -0800
>
> lto: Also copy .note.gnu.property section
>
> When generating the separate file with LTO debug sections, we should
> also copy .note.gnu.property section.
>
> PR lto/93966
> * simple-object.c (handle_lto_debug_sections): Also copy
> .note.gnu.property section.
>
> to GCC 8. Is it OK?
Richi said on IRC that GCC 8 is unaffected and does copy all sections.
Also, I've made GCC 8.4-rc2 already and would strongly prefer not to do
another one, so if it is needed even for GCC 8, my preference would be
defer til 8.5 (i.e. commit after Wednesday).
Jakub