svn commit: r270099 - in stable: 10/contrib/gcc/config/i386 9/contrib/gcc/config/i386

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 03:29:42PM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> In principle it is applicable, but the same file also has other changes
> in head which were not MFCd, so just MFCing this one commit does not
> make much sense.  For example, the earlier cast fixes were part of a
> much larger commit by Pedro Giffuni, adding "experimental support for
> amdfam10/barcelona CPUs":
> 
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=251212

I'm running my stable/8 with Pedro's patches applied, including r251212,
no problems so far (although I don't have recent AMD CPUs to play with).

> Does it still make sense to backport such experimental changes to an old
> stable branch?  Of course I could split off just the changes to
> emmintrin.h, and leave the others out, but then we would have a partial
> MFC.  I'm not sure if that is the usual way of doing things...

Understood.  My goal here is to try to keep stable/8 as alive as possible,
since I plan to keep using it beyond its official EOL.  Hence, when I see
fixes that potentially help ports to be buildable on it I'd usually ask if
they can be MFCed (when it's easy enough to do).

./danfe