gnu/153298: Update base gcc with latest GPL2 patches (FSF 4.2.2
prerelease)
Pedro F. Giffuni
giffunip at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 7 16:20:11 UTC 2011
The following reply was made to PR gnu/153298; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip at yahoo.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, Martin Matuska <mm at FreeBSD.org>
Cc:
Subject: Re: gnu/153298: Update base gcc with latest GPL2 patches (FSF 4.2.2 prerelease)
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 07:57:15 -0800 (PST)
--- On Mon, 3/7/11, Martin Matuska <mm at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
...
> In the meantime I have backported
> some useful, non-intrusive,
> GPLv2-licensed CPU types from 4.3 (core2, geode,
> opteron-sse3).
>
Yes, thanks .. I've been following those to add them
to llvm-gcc4 which adds supports SSE4 and blocks from
Apple gcc.
> The latest vendor version in FreeBSD is gcc 4.2 SVN rev.
> 126787
> It would be nice to have a patch generated out of SVN -
> merging just the
> exact difference between 126787 and 127959.
> I might take a look at that.
>
The results should be the same as my patch but I
specifically avoided the version bump to gcc
4.2.2 (prerelease) to avoid license confusions.
(I didn't care about the initial score support
either and I separated the MIPS stuff in a
different PR)
cheers,
Pedro.
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