On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 17:26 -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote: > Robert Schwebel wrote: > > > What about PR28516, would it be acceptable for 4.1.2? > > There are two issues: > > (1) it's not marked as a 4.1 regression, let alone a regression from > 4.1.x. Did this test case work with older versions of GCC? > > (2) Richard Earnshaw objected to applying the patch to 4.1 because it > requires a newer GAS. Paul's counter that the newer GAS is only needed > if your compiler would otherwise crash seems persuasive to me, if true, > but I'd certainly want Richard to be comfortable with the change.
I agree that in this instance it seems reasonable to require the newer GAS version. So objection withdrawn. R.