Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc: Blacklist GCC 5.4 6.1 and 6.2

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 11:25:43AM +1100, Cyril Bur wrote:

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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 ;-)

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Please mention the GCC PR # somewhere in the code, too?

Sure.

Thanks!


Segher