Re: [RFA wwwdocs] Re: [PATCH v2] Target-specific limits on vector alignment

2012-08-10 Thread Ulrich Weigand
Richard Earnshaw wrote: > How about: > > On ARM, a bug has been fixed in GCC's implementation of the AAPCS > rules for the layout of vectors that could lead to wrong code being > generated. Vectors larger than 8 bytes in size are now by default > aligned to an 8-byte boundary. This is an ABI ch

Re: [RFA wwwdocs] Re: [PATCH v2] Target-specific limits on vector alignment

2012-08-10 Thread Richard Earnshaw
On 10/08/12 16:18, Ulrich Weigand wrote: > Richard Earnshaw wrote: >> On 10/08/12 14:44, Ulrich Weigand wrote: >>> Would the following htdocs patch be OK with you? Feel free to suggest >>> a more appropriate wording ... >> >> I think we need to make it clear that this also fixes a bug in the >>

Re: [RFA wwwdocs] Re: [PATCH v2] Target-specific limits on vector alignment

2012-08-10 Thread Ulrich Weigand
Richard Earnshaw wrote: > On 10/08/12 14:44, Ulrich Weigand wrote: > > Would the following htdocs patch be OK with you? Feel free to suggest > > a more appropriate wording ... > > I think we need to make it clear that this also fixes a bug in the > compiler that could lead to a run-time error.

Re: [RFA wwwdocs] Re: [PATCH v2] Target-specific limits on vector alignment

2012-08-10 Thread Richard Earnshaw
On 10/08/12 14:44, Ulrich Weigand wrote: > Ramana Radhakrishnan wrote: > >> In addition I'd like this documented in changes.html for each of the >> release branches. > > Richard Earnshaw wrote: > >> However, it does need to be release-noted. > > Would the following htdocs patch be OK with you?

[RFA wwwdocs] Re: [PATCH v2] Target-specific limits on vector alignment

2012-08-10 Thread Ulrich Weigand
Ramana Radhakrishnan wrote: > In addition I'd like this documented in changes.html for each of the > release branches. Richard Earnshaw wrote: > However, it does need to be release-noted. Would the following htdocs patch be OK with you? Feel free to suggest a more appropriate wording ... B