On 20 January 2015 at 18:19, Alexey Dokuchaev <da...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 07:50:23PM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote: >> But the fix is rather ugly, isn't it? I would personally prefer to just >> kill the older gcc but in the meantime updating it so that it behaves >> like the updated gcc/clang would be better. IMHO. > > Seconded. Putting extra harness on the code to avoid bugs in the compiler > that were actually fixed upsteam is totally bogus.
Right, but: * not all of us work on compilers; * not all of us want to currently be working on compilers; * some of us have to use the gcc that's in tree; * .. and apparently updating that gcc to something > 4.2 is verboten. So if someone wants to help Navdeep by backporting those options, please do. I bet he'd love the help. -adrian _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
