PR34668

[Richard Guenther]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Bingfeng Mei <bmei@broadcom.com> wrote:
> Is --combine supposed to phase out in favor of LTO? If yes, do we
> need to fix it anyway?

It is supposed to phase out (well - technically its a --combine is
a frontend thing, so you have to ask the FE maintainers, and it's
a frontend bug).  Practically --combine is unmaintained while
LTO is maintained.

Richard.

> Bingfeng
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Richard Guenther [mailto:richard.guenther@gmail.com]
>> Sent: 10 March 2010 14:06
>> To: Rainer Orth
>> Cc: Bingfeng Mei; gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
>> Subject: Re: PR34668
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Rainer Orth
>> <ro@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
>> > Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@gmail.com> writes:
>> >
>> >>> Can we than XFAIL the test, please?  This is really confusing and
>> >>> several people seem to have been looking at this issue,
>> only to discover
>> >>> that it's already known.
>> >>
>> >> Then it will XPASS on the release branch.
>> >
>> > True, so remove the XFAIL on the release branch ;-)
> Leaving everyone
>> > confused and investigating this doesn't seem like a smart
>> option to me.
>>
>> Well, it's technically a regression - hiding them by XFAILing them
>> doesn't sound wise to me either.  Look at all the guality
>> FAILs we have.
>>
>> Richard.
>>
>>
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