GCC 4.8.0 Status Report (2012-10-29), Stage 1 to end soon

[Peter Bergner]

On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 15:47 +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 08:40:00AM -0600, Peter Bergner wrote:
> > Well we also patch config.in and configure.ac/configure.  If those are
> > acceptable to be patched later too, then great.  If not, the patch
> 
> That is the same thing as config.gcc bits.
> 
> > isn't really very large.  We did do this for power7 initially too:
> > 
> >   http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-08/msg00162.html
> 
> But then power7 patch went in during stage1 of the n+1 release, and
> wasn't really backported to release branch (just to distro vendor branches),
> right?

I think we could have done better there, yes, but not all of our patches
were appropriate for backporting, especially those parts that touched
outside of the port.  There will be portions of power8 we won't/don't
want to backport either, but I would like to get the major backend
portions like machine description files and the like backported to
4.8 when the time comes.  Having the configurey changes in would help
that, but if you say those are things we can get in after stage1,
then that can ease things a bit.  That said, I'll post our current
patch as is and discuss within our team and with David on what our
next course of action should be.

Peter