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From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r276485 - in head/sys: conf dev/cxgbe
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 07:06:14PM -0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 20 January 2015 at 18:19, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Seconded.  Putting extra harness on the code to avoid bugs in the
> > compiler that were actually fixed upsteam is totally bogus.
>
> Right, but:
> [...]
> * some of us have to use the gcc that's in tree;
> * .. and apparently updating that gcc to something > 4.2 is verboten.

To be clear: I did not suggest moving to external toolchain (I hate to do
it myself).  I was talking about merging the fix to base gcc4.2 (provided
that it can be licensed under GPLv2).  Now that most people had lost their
interest in 8.x, it can be a problem of organizational nature, but not
technical.

./danfe