Understood. Thank you for the explanations. I'll just plan to apply the patches locally as well.
Regards, Cory On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 11:18 AM Alexander Monakov <amona...@ispras.ru> wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Oct 2018, Jeff Law wrote: > > To add a bit more context for Cory. > > > > Generally backports are limited to fixing regressions and serious code > > generation bugs. While we do make some exceptions, those are good > > general guidelines. > > > > I don't think the qsort changes warrant an exception. > > Personally I think in this case there isn't a strong reason to backport, the > patch is fairly isolated, so individuals or companies that need it should have > no problem backporting it on their own. Previously, Franz Sirl reported back > in June they've used the patch to achieve matching output on their > Linux-hosted > vs Cygwin-hosted cross-compilers based on GCC 8: > https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2018-06/msg00751.html > > Alexander
