https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77728
--- Comment #40 from Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Jakub Jelinek from comment #39) > It is an ABI change, so I think it is highly undesirable to backport. It is > enough that people will have to rebuild many packages built by GCC 7 > prereleases, if it is backported, they would have to rebuild also anything > built by GCC 5 or 6. On the other hand, the initial bug report showed that the old compilers weren't even self-consistent.