On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 10:23 +0100, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 08:56 +0100, Arnaud Charlet wrote:
> > > > OK for stage 1 (GCC 4.5), currently pretty much everything is frozen on
> > > > mainline, except regressions (I hope stage 1 will open soon, since we 
> > > > have
> > > > monthes of backlog of various fixes and new development blocked right 
> > > > now
> > > > which will be painful to merge).
> > > 
> > > If the ACATS test fails on ia64-linux, that's a regression from 4.3.x.
> > 
> > OK, that's a little surprising, but if it's indeed a confirmed
> > regression, then it's fine to commit now.
> 
> I didn't put a regression tag because I don't have access to ia64-linux
> but according to Andreas Schwab testresults ACATS was clean on ia64 4.3:
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2009-02/msg01606.html
> 
> And was failing all cxf3a0N tests back in november:
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2008-11/msg01831.html
> 
> Currently they do not fail on ia64 4.4 but I guess any unrelated commit 
> can make them fail again. Also formally this bug has security
> implications since we're overwritting memory, so may be I should
> backport it.
> 
> Let me know if you think it's still okay for 4.4 and
> if it's okay for 4.3 backport commit (after testing there of course).

After checking cxf3a01 showed up here:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2009-01/msg02370.html

So I went ahead and commited the buffer overflow fix on 4.4.
If it shows up on 4.3 too I'll backport.

Laurent


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