On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 11:28:13AM -0600, Jeff Law wrote:
> On 04/27/2018 05:00 AM, Martin Liška wrote:
> > I'm sending patch that removes MPX. It preserves all options
> > -fcheck-pointer-bounds, -fchkp-* and -mmpx
> > target option. These options are now NOP. On the contrary following options
> > were removed:
> > --static-libmpx -static-libmpxwrappers. Is it fine to remove them?
> >
> > Patch can bootstrap on x86_64-linux-gnu, ppc64le-linux-gnu and survives
> > regression tests.
> > And the patch bootstraps also on aarch64-linux-gnu.
> >
> > Note that the patch is trim for files (some) that are removed. Doing that
> > was necessary to
> > fit in 100K with bzip2 patch file.
> >
> > Ready to be installed after some time?
> Yes. Please coordinate with Jakub & Richi since this touches a fair
> amount of code and might interfere with attempts to backport changes
> from the trunk into the gcc-8 release branch.
>
> I wouldn't be surprised if we find bits of MPX code after the patch is
> installed. Changes to remove any stragglers are pre-approved as well.
Martin, any progress with this? I'm not worried about MPX removal making
backports much harder.
Jakub
