Second GCC 9.1 Release Candidate available from gcc.gnu.org

Segher Boessenkool segher@kernel.crashing.org
Thu May 2 19:20:00 GMT 2019


On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 08:41:29PM +0200, Rainer Orth wrote:
> Hi Segher,
> 
> > On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 03:47:33PM +0200, Rainer Orth wrote:
> >> I've now tested this RC on i386-pc-solaris2.1[01] and
> >> sparc-sun-solaris2.1[01].  The only issue (apart from the just-fixed
> >> spellcheck-options-5.c testcase) is
> >> 
> >> +FAIL: gcc.target/i386/pr90178.c scan-assembler-times xorl[\\\\t
> >> ]*\\\\%eax,[\\\\t ]*%eax 1
> >> 
> >> While this has already been fixed on mainline, it's still present on the
> >> gcc-9 branch on every x86 target.
> >
> > It's not a regression though (the testcase is new).
> 
> true, but in a way that's even worse: a new target-specific testcase
> failing on exactly that target (and a primary platform at that) doesn't
> seem particularly convincing to me: we should be getting rid of
> testsuite failures now, not introducing new ones at the 11th hour.

If you prefer to not know about the bug, sure, delete the testcase :-/

The problem is fixed on trunk already, fwiw.


Segher



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