Michael Meissner wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 06:33:33PM +0200, Gunther Nikl wrote: >> Michael Meissner schrieb: >>> On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 10:13:25AM +0200, Gunther Nikl wrote: >>>> Michael Meissner wrote: >>>>> Segher Boessenkool asked me on IRC to break out the fix in the last >>>>> change. >>>>> This patch is just the change to set the default options if the user did >>>>> not >>>>> use -mcpu=<xxx> and the compiler was not configured with --with-cpu=<xxx>. >>>>> Here are the patches. >>>> Which GCC releases are affected by this bug? >>> All of them. >> So this bug is as old as the rs6000 port has PowerPC support? Then GCC >> 2.95 is also affected?
I took a closer look. AFAICT, the above mentioned bug is a result of the rewritten option parsing for GCC 4.6. And that was what I wanted to know. Since this is a regression, should this be fixed in 4.6/4.7? > Well as I said, it is pretty latent, and most people never have noticed it. > It really depends on what the options are whether you run into the problem. Yes, I understood that but this did not address my question. Regards, Gunther
