On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 01:11:53PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > b.) or am I/we miss something else?
> 
> I'm talking about
> https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2017-July/479571.html
> https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2017-August/480573.html

ah, those patches! 
 
> submitted upstream by Ximin Luo, not accepted in this form, and not part of 
> the
> Debian package either.  In the past the r-b effort used to build their own
> compiler with a bunch of patches.  Is this still the case?

no.

sadly these patches are basically orphaned right now, noone is feeling 
responsible for
getting them upstream. this is also because the workaround is so easy: just 
rebuild
in the same path. which is far from optimal, but that's where we are right now.


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