Hello!
GCC 4.3.1 is still not ready for release as the x86 direction flag
issue (36079) needs to be resolved. We have reached consensus to
add a new flag -mcld to allow to work around the kernel bug and to
add a configure option to enable/disable this by default.
The patch from Uros is implementing the -mcld parts but lacks the
configure option part for which no patch exists yet.
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-03/msg00417.html
The plan is to create a release candidate for 4.3.1 once the direction
flag issue is resolved and 4.2.4 was released. I will announce a
freeze of the 4.3 branch once the release process starts.
IIRC, the final word was that the impact of this issue is not high
enough to warrant adding a separate flag [1] ?
[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36079
Uros.
