RFA: GCC 4.2.1: Stabalizing coalesce_list's qsort

[Richard Guenther]

On 8/31/07, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> > No, but for trunk if you bootstrapped/tested this.  That is, this patch
> > is ok for mainline if you did.
>
> I have not (yet) applied this patch to the mainline.  The patched sources do
> bootstrap without problems, but I could not find any way to reproduce the
> original bug.  (ie the problem with a cygwin based mips compiler producing
> non-working code whereas a linux based mips compiler produced working code).  I
> even tried deliberately destabilizing the sort, but the current mainline
> sources do not appear to have any requirements of stability.
>
> Since stabilizing the sort would slow it down, I thought it best to check to
> make sure that it is still OK to apply the patch.  ie are we preferring host
> independence over compile speed ?

Yes.  I don't think the slowdown will be noticable.

Richard.