GCC 4.2.0 Status Report (2007-05-11)

[Bill Wendling]

On May 11, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> Bill Wendling wrote:
>> This one was just filed against 4.2.0:
>>
>>    http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31903
>>
>> It is causing LLVM (at least) to fail to build. Do you think it's  
>> worth
>> adding to the list?
>
> Does it show up anywhere other than Darwin?  On the basis of Darwin
> alone, I would not further hold up the release.  That is not to say  
> that
> I would not consider a patch to fix it, of course.
>
Andrew Pinski wasn't able to reproduce the link error on Linux, and  
I've only seen it on Darwin. However, as Chris Lattner pointed out,  
this indicates a fairly serious problem (which shows up even on the  
Linux build) in that the symbols aren't getting internal linkage  
(they're in an anonymous namespace, so should). It could impact  
performance on large systems quite a bit. Certainly during linking.

-bw