Hi!

On Sun, Dec 14, 2025 at 06:13:55PM +0100, Eric Botcazou wrote:
> > Thanks for reviewing the patch!
> 
> You're welcome.
> 
> > I have upstreamed the patch after incorporating your comments.
> 
> OK, but please post the final version of the patch here next time.
> 
> > After a week on the trunk, I would like to backport the patch to gcc 13
> > as this is a customer reported issue.
> 
> That's not sufficient a reason, we normally backport changes onto release 
> branches only if they fix a regression wrt an earlier release, unless the 
> backport is specifically allowed by a release manager or a maintainer.

I'm sure we can find some old release where things did not yet fail
(simply because ancient stuff missed many features completely), so this
is a regression looked at that way ;-)

Bugfixes are often backported.  But features not usually no.


Segher

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