On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 07:53:22AM -0600, Hal Finkel wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Joerg Sonnenberger" <[email protected]>
> > To: [email protected]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 6:22:31 AM
> > Subject: Re: r225958 - Use the integrated assembler by default on 32-bit    
> > PowerPC and SPARC.
> > 
> > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 07:08:58PM -0800, Chandler Carruth wrote:
> > > FWIW, I still don't think it's reasonable to change strategy like
> > > this just
> > > before cutting a release. I think that 3.6 shouldn't have this
> > > change so
> > > that we can prepare for it in the run up to 3.7.
> > 
> > I don't agree on this. The central point is that using IAS actually
> > creates *less* problems.
> 
> From whom does it create fewer problems? For you? This is not
> necessarily the only relevant concern.

For me, this change doesn't matter much as NetBSD has been using IAS for
a long time. I am speaking from the time it wasn't and it generally has
been a pain to hunt down all the necessary GAS flags to get it to accept
the output from Clang etc. Having to sprinkle a few -fno-ias flags has
been much less problematic.

Joerg
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