Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 21:50:09 GMT From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gnu/153298: Update base gcc with latest GPL2 patches (FSF 4.2.2 prerelease) Message-ID: <201103072150.p27Lo9UY011316@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR gnu/153298; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@yahoo.com> To: Martin Matuska <mm@FreeBSD.org> Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gnu/153298: Update base gcc with latest GPL2 patches (FSF 4.2.2 prerelease) Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 13:33:28 -0800 (PST) Hmm... I understand your position (surely shared by other developers) but this bugfixes come from gcc's stable branch and I will not go hunting for bugs in the ports tree that have already been reported in gcc GNATs. Some of the bugs don't affect building but at all but will have serious performance implications or will break debugging. An example (both are bugs still in our base gcc): gcc PR tree-optimization/25413 is pretty serious as it means Pentium 4 SSE optimizations are broken. gcc PR tree-optimization/32723 is much less serious and code similar to the testcase is not easy to find in the ports tree (it compiles but uses a LOT of memory). I know that 25413 should be applied but it's ridiculous not to fix 32723 (which appears first in the changelog) just because it's not something people have noticed. Eventually people will notice these issues and will blame FreeBSD and not gcc... and I am starting to think they will be right to do so :(.
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