On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 11:25:43AM +1100, Cyril Bur wrote: > > > At the time of writing GCC 5.4 is the most recent and is affected. GCC > > > 6.3 contains the backported fix, has been tested and appears safe to > > > use. > > > > 6.3 is (of course) the newer release; 5.4 is a maintenance release of > > a compiler that is a year older. > > Yes. I think the point I was trying to make is that since they > backported the fix to 5.x and 6.x then I expect that 5.5 will have the > fix but since it doesn't exist yet, I can't be sure. I'll add something > to that effect.
The patch has been backported to the GCC 5 branch; it will be part of any future GCC 5 release (5.5 and later, if any later will happen; 5.5 will). Don't be so unsure about these things, we aren't *that* incompetent ;-) > > Please mention the GCC PR # somewhere in the code, too? > > Sure. Thanks! Segher