state of 3.2.1-pre: how far from release?

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Wed Nov 6 16:44:00 GMT 2002



--On Wednesday, November 06, 2002 07:20:03 PM -0500 David Edelsohn 
<dje@watson.ibm.com> wrote:

>>>>>> Mark Mitchell writes:
>
> Mark> My preference would be to see the load multiple/store multiple
> Mark> instructions that are causing the problem disabled.  Better a slow
> Mark> compiler than a broken one, since David says the problem can come up
> Mark> relatively often.
>
> Mark> If the RS6000 maintainers do not want to do that, then David's
> Mark> work-around for abi_check.cc is OK.
>
> 	The failure is not complicated, but does not appear to occur
> often, so disabling the pattern does not seem necessary.  We can consider
> this more for GCC 3.3.

I'm happy to trust your judgement; please check in a change, and mark
the PR as a mainline regression, since we'll not be worrying about it
on the branch.

Thanks,

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