http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54419
--- Comment #56 from Paolo Carlini <paolo.carlini at oracle dot com> 2012-09-09 16:14:41 UTC --- I suppose that the lack of responsiveness may be ultimately due to the fact that the issue only shows up on some specific systems (that is, those using old assemblers) which normally the maintainers (in general, not just the library ones) working on mainline GCC don't develop on and don't assume are the reference systems on which the next release series will be eventually primarily installed. Indeed, if you look at gcc-patches it's pretty obvious that the development of GCC mainline proceeded quite normally, and, at this stage at least, this is what *really* counts.