On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 12:16:58PM -0600, Peter Bergner wrote: [ big snip, thanks for the thorough explanation! ]
> The following patch passes bootstrap and regtesting on powerpc64le-linux. > Ok for the GCC 6 branch? Please also test on BE and 32-bit. > We don't hit this on trunk, because we're using LRA there, so I'm not > sure whether we want to add this there this late in the release cycle. I prefer to have it on trunk as well. We *do* still support non-LRA on trunk, just not by default. This is okay if all testing works out. Thanks! Segher