From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] gcc: Add GCC 5.2.x option
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 09:37:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160226093720.7fcd4e10@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456456548-11898-1-git-send-email-cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Cyril,
On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 14:15:48 +1100, Cyril Bur wrote:
> GCC 5.3.x introduces a regression with PowerPC Altivec/VSX code generation.
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69969
>
> Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
> ---
> I'm not sure if this patch is worth the trouble. By the looks of it the GCC
> guys are aiming to have a fix in 5.4 and it is unlikely most users are
> doing things that would result in them hitting the bug.
Like we did for previous gcc versions, we only want to support one
minor version at a time for a given major branch.
So at the gcc 4 era, it meant we would only package one gcc 4.8, one
gcc 4.9, etc.
At the gcc >= 5 era, it means we want to package only one 5.x version,
one 6.x version, etc.
If you want to fix the problem without waiting for gcc 5.4, what I can
suggest is to backport the fixes for the regression you are
experiencing.
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-26 8:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-26 3:15 [Buildroot] [PATCH] gcc: Add GCC 5.2.x option Cyril Bur
2016-02-26 8:37 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2016-02-28 22:22 ` Cyril Bur
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