> The patch below is a backport of those fixes to the 4.5 branch, which > fixes the profiled-bootstrap failure for me. (Note that on current > mainling, the ifcvt.c dead_or_predictable routine has been significantly > rewritten beyond what was done by those patches. These additional > changes do not appear to be necessary to fix the PR ...)
Do you really need to backport the MERGE_SET_NOCLOBBER stuff? This will cause the branch to optimize more aggressively than before. -- Eric Botcazou