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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>
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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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