On Tue, 2015-06-30 at 09:01 -0400, David Malcolm wrote: > On Tue, 2015-06-30 at 08:43 +0200, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:44:31AM -0400, David Malcolm wrote: > > > I've gone over the changes to the gcc/jit and gcc/testsuite/jit.dg > > > directories in trunk since gcc 5 and backported the following 4 changes > > > from trunk to the gcc-5-branch: > > > > > > > > > I'll be delighted if switch statements ability would be backported to > > GCC 5. (Its absence is IMHO a severe bug in GCCJIT, but perhaps GCC rules > > forbid backporting new features, even when they correct a huge > > deficiency and when the patch adding them is probably quite small). > > I don't agree with your characterization of the severity of this, but I > do think we ought to fix it if possible. > > I don't know of any rules about what is and what isn't suitable for > backporting. The jit work as a whole is relatively new and has been > messaged as "experimental". > > I'm the jit maintainer, and I believe the patch is reasonable to > backport: it doesn't break API or ABI (although it extends it), it has > docs and test coverage, and doesn't touch anything outside of the jit > (beyond adding the new header gcc/typed-splay-tree.h, which is only used > by the jit). > > Hence I intend to backport it to gcc-5-branch, but I've got to get it > into trunk first :) (hopefully later today)
Switch statements for the jit are now in gcc-5-branch, as of r225255.
