On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 09:03:34PM -0400, Gene Smith wrote: > Could the -Og patches for 4.8 be back-ported to 4.7.3? Or is there > important 4.8 dependencies that would make this not practicable?
I have no idea about the hypothetical future GCC 4.7.4, but I guess that the general policy would be to avoid such a significant patch ... > The patches to add -Og shown on gcc.patches list don't look > extremely extensive. But they may depend of other improvements in 4.8 > > This would be for personal use and not necessarily proposed for > general release. For personal use it is so much simpler to just build GCC 4.8 and use it. No good reason to stick to a patched GCC 4.7 Cheers. -- Basile STARYNKEVITCH http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/ email: basile<at>starynkevitch<dot>net mobile: +33 6 8501 2359 8, rue de la Faiencerie, 92340 Bourg La Reine, France *** opinions {are only mines, sont seulement les miennes} ***
