On Mon, 19 May 2008, Uros Bizjak wrote: > 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
It turns out to be more a political and marketing issue than a technical issue, so it was decided that we should provide -mcld and a configure option. Richard.
