Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:43:08
Message-Id: 200607071434.45843.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags by "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò"
1 On Friday 07 July 2006 13:22, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
2 > On Friday 07 July 2006 17:31, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
3 > > As I pointed out on irc (to clarify), its still an issue even with
4 > > gcc-3.4.6. Its just well enough filtered, and as Mike pointed out, they
5 > > 'fixed' it in 3.4.5 via specs, and 3.4.6 by backporting patches from
6 > > 4.0.1 I think.
7 >
8 > For what I know, the last issue was fixed with 3.3/3.4, so this sounds new
9 > to me.
10
11 i dont think the segfaults applied to the 3.3 branch as the code was new to
12 the 3.4 branch
13
14 the issues were worked around in 3.4.5 via specs filtering, 3.4.6 included one
15 fix and i backported the other, 3.4.4 and older i dont know the status of
16 (but i'd be inclined to push people to 3.4.6 anyways and cut 3.4.[0-4])
17
18 > That said, I think this is up to now the only point that would make me
19 > rethink over this whole idea. For a pure simple and practical problem.
20
21 doesnt seem like a valid roadblocker to me ... but i see the toolchain as
22 something higher up guys shouldnt have to worry/think about; fix the gcc
23 bugs, dont work around them in ebuilds
24 -mike