svn commit: r276485 - in head/sys: conf dev/cxgbe modules/cxgbe/if_cxgbe

[Adrian Chadd]

On 20 January 2015 at 18:19, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 07:50:23PM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
>> But the fix is rather ugly, isn't it? I would personally prefer to just
>> kill the older gcc but in the meantime updating it so that it behaves
>> like the updated gcc/clang would be better. IMHO.
>
> Seconded.  Putting extra harness on the code to avoid bugs in the compiler
> that were actually fixed upsteam is totally bogus.

Right, but:

* not all of us work on compilers;
* not all of us want to currently be working on compilers;
* some of us have to use the gcc that's in tree;
* .. and apparently updating that gcc to something > 4.2 is verboten.

So if someone wants to help Navdeep by backporting those options,
please do. I bet he'd love the help.



-adrian