Jakub Jelinek writes: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 02:46:29PM +0530, Senthil Kumar Selvaraj wrote: >> > I'm not convinced it is desirable to backport such changes, it affects ABI, >> > people are used to deal with minor ABI changes in between major GCC >> > releases, but we'd need a strong reason to change it between minor >> > releases. >> >> Hmm, I tracked this down from a (internal) bug reported on arm-none-eabi, >> where the >> inconsistent enum size (used in sizeof to malloc) was eventually causing >> heap corruption. >> >> When debugging the issue, I noticed you'd already backported >> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69669, so I thought this >> should be good. > > That one has been a regression, older GCCs handled it the same as does the 5 > branch now. Is that the case here?
No, I can reproduce the bug on 4.9 as well. So not ok to backport then, I guess? Regards Senthil
