Second GCC 8.4 Release Candidate available from gcc.gnu.org

[H.J. Lu]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 3:46 AM Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 03:41:06AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 2:46 AM Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > The second release candidate for GCC 8.4 is available from
> > >
> > >  https://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/8.4.0-RC-20200302/
> > >  ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/8.4.0-RC-20200302/
> > >
> > > and shortly its mirrors.  It has been generated from git commit
> > > r8-10102-g0afd41f8e6530b13421679801cf73cb6bef55553.
> > >
> > > I have so far bootstrapped and tested the release candidate on
> > > x86_64-linux and i686-linux.  Please test it and report any issues to
> > > bugzilla.
> > >
> > > If all goes well, I'd still like to release 8.4 on Wednesday, March 4th.
> > >
> >
> > I'd like to backport:
> >
> > commit r10-6965-g577350603a657590c4b54a4a966cb49497e2514c
> > Author: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
> > Date:   Mon Mar 2 03:08:57 2020 -0800
> >
> >     lto: Also copy .note.gnu.property section
> >
> >     When generating the separate file with LTO debug sections, we should
> >     also copy .note.gnu.property section.
> >
> >     PR lto/93966
> >     * simple-object.c (handle_lto_debug_sections): Also copy
> >     .note.gnu.property section.
> >
> > to GCC 8.  Is it OK?
>
> Richi said on IRC that GCC 8 is unaffected and does copy all sections.

GCC 8 is affected.

> Also, I've made GCC 8.4-rc2 already and would strongly prefer not to do
> another one, so if it is needed even for GCC 8, my preference would be
> defer til 8.5 (i.e. commit after Wednesday).

I will do it for Wednesday.

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H.J.