On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Mike Stump <mikest...@comcast.net> wrote:
> On Apr 21, 2011, at 9:59 PM, Jason Merrill wrote:
>> On 04/21/2011 10:55 PM, Nathan Froyd wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:49:05PM -0400, Jason Merrill wrote:
>>>> Hunh.  How does that work?  They fill in CASE_LABEL later?  Can that be
>>>> changed?
>>>
>>> Yeah, tree-eh.c:lower_try_finally_switch.  I don't know how easy it is
>>> to fix; it certainly looks non-trivial.
>>
>> Well, I tried adjusting it and regression testing seems fine so far.
>
> Unsurprising...  It will never fail during testsuite run, and won't always 
> fail during a bootstrap.
>
>> I can't think what the comment would be talking about with pointers not 
>> providing a stable order; I don't see anything that would rely on that.
>
>  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-04/msg00161.html
>
> has the details of why the code was put in.  Essentially, the Ada boostrap on 
> x86 linux.  What's worse is, at the time, it would only occasionally fail, 
> so, a bootstrap that works won't prove anything.

Well, unless we are not walking a pointer-based hashtable I don't see
how this matters here.

To Nathan: yes, UNKNOWN_LOCATION would be correct.  Whoever then sets
the label should adjust it accordingly.

Richard.

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