Sorry about my oversight. I am on vacation now until Dec 19.  I don't
have good internet access now and I will backport this to upstream 4.6
after I come back if the 4.6 maintainers agree to take this.

-Doug

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Richard Guenther
<richard.guent...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 05:59:53PM -0800, Doug Kwan wrote:
>>>     This is a backport for two upstream patches into our 4.6 branch.
>>> I submitted the first patch by Julian a while ago for backport but
>>> Richard Earnshaw pointed out a problem with the first patch.  The second
>>> patch from Joey fixes that problem.  This was tested on x86 and ARM.
>>
>> Why hasn't this been proposed for upstream 4.6 instead?
>> See PR51442.
>
> It's indeed annoying to see arm related backports only going to
> vendor branches, not the last officially maintained GCC release
> branch (4.6).  I keep getting local requests to include random
> patches to our 4.6 build to make "arm work at all".  It seriously
> seems like having arm-linux-gnueabi as a primary target is a lie to our users.
>
> Arm maintainers - please consider maintaining at least the current
> release series and shift focus away from your vendor branches.
>
> Thanks,
> Richard.
>
>>> 2011-11-22   Doug Kwan  <dougk...@google.com>
>>>
>>>       Backport r171347 and r181549 from trunk.
>>>
>>>       gcc/
>>>       2011-03-23  Julian Brown  <jul...@codesourcery.com>
>>>
>>>               * expr.c (expand_expr_real_1): Only use BLKmode for volatile
>>>               accesses which are not naturally aligned.
>>>
>>>       2011-11-20  Joey Ye  <joey...@arm.com>
>>>
>>>               * expr.c (expand_expr_real_1): Correctly handle strict 
>>> volatile
>>>               bitfield loads smaller than mode size.
>>>
>>>       gcc/testsuite/
>>>       2011-11-20  Joey Ye  <joey...@arm.com>
>>>
>>>               * gcc.dg/volatile-bitfields-1.c: New.
>>
>>        Jakub

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