On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 09:59:41PM +0200, Janne Blomqvist wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 9:12 PM, Paul Richard Thomas > <paul.richard.tho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This patch has been triggered by Thomas's recent message to the list. > > Not only did I start work late relative to stage 3 but debugging took > > somewhat longer than anticipated. Therefore, to get this committed > > asap, we will have to beg the indulgence of the release managers and > > prompt review and/or testing by fortran maintainers. (Dominique has > > already undertaken to test -m32.) > > I think that if we can "guarantee" that we're happy with the current > ABI for GCC 9 (and hopefully 10, 11, ...?) we have a quite strong case > for committing it now. But if anybody if planning on doing some > ABI-breaking work in the foreseeable future then maybe we should wait > until GCC 9 stage1 opens. Anybody with such plans? >
I don't have any plans to break the ABI in 9.0. OTOH, if the patch isn't included in 8.0, then we know that the ABI will be broken for 9.0. I think we should shoot for stabilizing the ABI by including this in 8.0. -- Steve
