RFC on numerous outstanding regressions

[Jerry D]

On 3/13/26 7:13 PM, Jerry D wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> During Chris Alberts campaign going through all the gfortran know regressions he 
> noted a large number that have been fixed and never backported. These simpley 
> hang out there to bug and distract us and nothing every gets done.
> 
> Most of these are either openmp or oacc bugs.  Myself I see no point in back 
> porting these. Others think we should backport. My goal is zero regressions.
> 
> If the consensus is to backport these, then my first response is the initial 
> patch committer should have done it by now. Some of these are many years old.
> 
> I will backport these and test, but I do not do the usual other libgomp tests 
> that are run by others, so I hesitate for fear of breaking something since some 
> of the patches are ancient.
> 
> The question is backport and close or just close them? If backport, how far back 
> is worth going, obviously 13 is as far back as we can go? (Since no one has 
> whined about these regressions for so long my impression is they are irrelevant)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jerry, master janitor extraordinaire.

PS This is a classic example, this thing has sat out in never never land for 10 
years. This is absurd.

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77371