GCC 4.2.0 Status Report (2007-05-11)

[Richard Guenther]

On 5/12/07, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> Daniel Berlin wrote:
> > On 5/11/07, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> >> Every time I think we're almost there with this release, I seem to
> >> manage to get stuck. :-(  However, we're very close: the only PRs that
> >> I'm waiting for are:
> >>
> >> PR 31797: An infinite loop in the compiler while building RTEMS.
> >> Daniel, I see you've been commenting on this; are you working on the
> >> fix?  If so, do you have an ETA?
> >
> > It's not actually a PRE bug, andrew is right.
> > None of the statements accessing volatile variables end up with
> > has_volatile_ops set on them, which is what is really causing the
> > problem.
>
> Thanks -- but that doesn't answer my questions. :-)  Seriously, what I'm
> trying to figure out is whether you (or someone) is working on fixing
> this, so I can get a sense of the tradeoffs between releasing and
> waiting for a fix.

I have two fixes and am currently testing one.

Richard.