GCC 4.2.0 Status Report (2007-05-11)

[Serge Belyshev]

"Richard Guenther" <richard.guenther@gmail.com> writes:

> It was a patch to enable more optimization.  Reverting it should be as safe
> or unsafe as exchanging forwprop and dce passes.  And I have no idea
> as how to quantify safeness of either ;)
>
> I'd say we better analyze what goes wrong (as the problem is possibly
> latent on the mainline) and fix it properly.  If we paper over it we will not
> fix it at all.
>

I vote for reverting that change (r111639) on the branch before release.
We would gain nothing by having bug 30252, however latent,
uncovered in a released compiler.