------- Comment #18 from bart dot vanassche at gmail dot com 2010-04-08 10:28 ------- (In reply to comment #12) > In my opinion it's too late now, I'm not even sure a 4.4.4 will be released > any > time soon, and 4.5.0 is around the corner. But if Jon would also like to see > it > in 4.4.4 and wants to backport the patch I do not object.
Please keep in mind that this behavior can have a severe negative impact on multithreaded C++ software that uses class std::string intensively because the unnecessary writes to _S_empty_rep_storage will cause unnecessary cache line bouncing. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40518
