On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Mark Mitchell wrote: > [Danny, Richard G., please see below.] > > Thanks to all who have helped tested GCC 4.1.2 RC1 over the last week. > > I've reviewed the list traffic and Bugzilla. Sadly, there are a fair > number of bugs. Fortunately, most seem not to be new in 4.1.2, and > therefore I don't consider them showstoppers. > > The following issues seem to be the 4.1.1 regressions: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GCC_4.1.2_Status > > PR 28743 is only an ICE-on-invalid, so I'm not terribly concerned. > > Daniel, 30088 is another aliasing problem. IIIRC, you've in the past > said that these were (a) hard to fix, and (b) uncommon. Is this the > same problem? If so, do you still feel that (b) is true? I'm > suspicious, and I am afraid that we need to look for a conservative hack.
PR30708 popped up as well and maybe related (and easier to analyze as it's C-only). Both don't seem to be regressions on the branch, though. > Richard, 30370 has a patch, but David is concerned that we test it on > older GNU/Linux distributions, and suggested SLES9. Would you be able > to test that? The patch bootstrapped and tested ok on SLES9-ppc. > Richard, 29487 is an issue raised on HP-UX 10.10, but I'm concerned that > it may reflect a bad decision about optimization of C++ functions that > don't throw exceptions. Would you please comment? I believe reverting this patch on the branch is the only option (to fixing the HP-UX assembler). I don't know of any real-life issue it fixes. Richard. -- Richard Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Novell / SUSE Labs
