On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:42:19PM +0100, Richard Guenther wrote: > On 3/1/06, H. J. Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:21:19PM +0100, Steven Bosscher wrote: > > > On Wednesday 01 March 2006 21:14, H. J. Lu wrote: > > > > Is 4.1 branch open now? I'd like to back port the x86 > > > > -mtune=generic patch: > > > > > > Isn't that totally inappropriate for a release branch? > > > > > > > What is it inappropriate about? > > It's a new feature and not a fix for a regression. -> totally inappropriate.
It is the issue of quality of gcc 4.1 on IA32/x86-64. The current gcc 4.1 performs very poorly on IA32/x86-64, comparing against gcc 4.2. I can't recommond gcc 4.1 to most people using IA32/x86-64. This change is specific to the IA32/x86-64 backend and won't affect any other targets. H.J.
