On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 3:11 PM, Peryt, Sebastian <sebastian.pe...@intel.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 2:35 PM, Peryt, Sebastian <sebastian.pe...@intel.com> >> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 2:56 PM, Peryt, Sebastian >> >> <sebastian.pe...@intel.com> >> >> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> >> > >> >> > This patch enables new instructions - MOVDIRI and MOVDIR64B. >> >> > >> >> > Is it ok for trunk? >> >> >> >> Is there a reason that one flag goes to ix86_isa_flags and the other >> >> to ix86_isa_flags2? >> > >> > This is because of usage of OPTION_MASK_ISA_MOVDIRI | >> > OPTION_MASK_ISA_64BIT which would end up in different isa flags >> > tables. And MOVDIR64B doesn't use this option, so it can be in >> > ix86_isa_flags2. >> >> Ah, indeed. >> >> The patch is OK for mainline then. > > Thanks! > >> >> (Please note that until gcc-8 is branched, patches that add new features >> won't >> be approved as we are nearing the release.) > > Can you please explain what this actually mean? I got confused. Also I'd like > to > mention that I have few more patches I'm going to send soon. > > That this mean I can merge this one in trunk, but there is no guarantee it > will be added into GCC-8?
No, the patch will be included in gcc-8, as gcc-8 has not yet branched from the trunk. But since branch date is approaching, we don't want to destabilize trunk by accepting patches that introduce new features, so they will have to be postponed and committed to the trunk after gcc-8 is branched. Uros.
