Mark Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Gunther Nikl wrote: | > Hello! | > | > This PR is about missing USER_LABEL_PREFIX for static variables. The issue | > was fixed for 4.0, but for 3.4 there won't be a fix as stated in the audit | > trail by Mark Mitchell in comment #15. He probably based his decision on | > comment #14, where Geoff Keating states that this bug does only affect | > debugging programs that don't have full debugging info. That conclusion is | > wrong, the bug has a much more severe impact! | | Yes, it's true that this is why I thought it was not important enough to | fix in GCC 3.4.x. | | However, I am no longer managing releases from the 3.4.x branch, so it's | up to Gaby to decide if he wants to reopen the issue. (I've cc'd Gaby | on this message.) | | Geoff's patch in Comment #11 is clearly too big to backport to 3.4.
Agreed. | Both Geoff and Ian are very knowledgeable, and I don't have personally | have any opinion about whether or not the patch in comment #7 is correct | or not, so I don't think I can say anything useful about whether or not | that patch might be a good starting point. I'd defer to Geoff and Ian for the correctness issue. *If* there is an acceptable patch, it won't be for 3.4.5. -- Gaby
