Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:06:14 -0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org>, Navdeep Parhar <np@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: svn commit: r276485 - in head/sys: conf dev/cxgbe modules/cxgbe/if_cxgbe Message-ID: <CAJ-VmokL2jq_Kh2CF30G%2BEk63Gab316i6atEN_7gYA8gzDEYNw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20150121021905.GA73548@FreeBSD.org> References: <201412312319.sBVNJHca031041@svn.freebsd.org> <CA%2BhQ2%2Bh29RObCONCd8Nu_W92CnJ9jHMZdRBqiU9hu78D3SwUDA@mail.gmail.com> <20150106203344.GB26068@ox> <54BEE07A.3070207@FreeBSD.org> <54BEE305.6020905@FreeBSD.org> <54BEF7CF.9030505@FreeBSD.org> <20150121021905.GA73548@FreeBSD.org>
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On 20 January 2015 at 18:19, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@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
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