[PATCH] Improve i386 prologue analyzer

Andrew Cagney cagney@gnu.org
Sat Aug 7 18:52:00 GMT 2004


>>Remember, at present MIPS is dead in the water.  For how long should we 
>>> delay pushing out a fix for that?
> 
> 
> mips-irix has been broken for a long time now, and I don't remember
> seeing any complaint. So I don't think we have that much pressure
> to produce a good release within a short time frame. If anything,
> I think it can wait until 6.3. The alternative for the users is to
> either use 5.3, which was pretty good - or use a patched-up 6.2.1
> with the couple of fixes I sent (this may be necessary if they use
> a very recent version of GCC, I don't know).

For MIPS-IRIX, yes.

Here the question is generic mips and the bfd/ fix you back ported. 
That is a good reason for a prompt re-spin of 6.2.

Andrew




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