GCC 5 Status Report (2015-01-19), Trunk in Stage 4

[Richard Biener]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Andreas Krebbel wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I would like to apply the following patch:
> 
> [PATCH] S/390: -mhotpatch v2
> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-01/msg02370.html
> 
> It is a backend only change to our existing -mhotpatch feature
> requested by the Linux kernel guys for the ftrace implementation:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/26/320
> 
> They need it in an upstream GCC asap. If we don't get it into 5.0 we
> probably would need to commit it onto 5.1 branch right after the
> release. I would rather try to avoid this since it would make the
> hotpatch feature incompatible between 5.0 and 5.1.
> 
> Ok to do it now?

Ok.  It needs an entry in changes.html.

Do you plan to backport this change?

Did you consider using an alternate option name instead of changing
it in an incompatible way?  I realize SUSE will need to backport this
thus any user will need to do functional testing to see whether his
compiler implements the new or old semantics?

Thanks,
Richard.

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