On 04/27/2018 05:00 AM, Martin Liška wrote: > Hi. > > I'm sending patch that removes MPX. It preserves all options > -fcheck-pointer-bounds, -fchkp-* and -mmpx > target option. These options are now NOP. On the contrary following options > were removed: > --static-libmpx -static-libmpxwrappers. Is it fine to remove them? > > Patch can bootstrap on x86_64-linux-gnu, ppc64le-linux-gnu and survives > regression tests. > And the patch bootstraps also on aarch64-linux-gnu. > > Note that the patch is trim for files (some) that are removed. Doing that was > necessary to > fit in 100K with bzip2 patch file. > > Ready to be installed after some time? Yes. Please coordinate with Jakub & Richi since this touches a fair amount of code and might interfere with attempts to backport changes from the trunk into the gcc-8 release branch.
I wouldn't be surprised if we find bits of MPX code after the patch is installed. Changes to remove any stragglers are pre-approved as well. Jeff
