Hi Mircea, On Fri, 5 May 2006, Mircea Namolaru wrote: > > That certainly does suggest a bug in the SEE patches. They needn't do > > anything useful on IA32/AMD64, but they should presumably either (a) not > > cause a bootstrap failure on these architectures, or (b) be disabled on > > these architectures. > > Agree. I will check the bootstrapping on x86. (a) seems preferable but > if not feasible in a short time frame, it will be (b).
Given that this is more than a bootstrap problem with non-default flags, but testsuite regressions for gfortran and SPEC failures on a primary platform, I think this falls under GCC's 48 hour rule. This simply formalizes your phrase "short time frame" above, and means that it you're unlikely to come up with a solution to these problems in the next day or two, that you/we should simply disable -fsee from being turned on by default at -O3. I appreciate your efforts to actually correct the defficiencies in SEE, which is indeed preferable, but for regression breakage in stage3, its often better to simply band-aid the problem as quickly as possible, even if you're close to a fix, as a courtesy to other developers. Roger --