http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51442
--- Comment #4 from Brendan Conoboy <bconoboy at gmail dot com> 2011-12-10 01:49:25 UTC --- FYI, I've checked out svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/gcc-4_6-branch revision 182172, run and rerun the complete testsuite before and after this patch (As well as the patch Richard pointed at: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-11/msg01390/volatile-bitfields-1110.patch) on an x86_64 host. The results are as follows: objc, gfortran, libstdc++-v3, libjava, libmudflap, libffi, libgomp: identical gcc: 2 new passes (These are from the testcase added by the second patch). Otherwise identical. To me this suggests there is very little risk in adding these patches to the branch. Likewise, there is a great deal to be gained for ARM users.
