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Re: [PATCH] Fix i486 builds with gcc 5.3
On 10/27/2016 04:30 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>
>> I have specifically chosen to narrow down the warning suppression to
>> gcc 5.3 because I'm not sure exactly how wide-spread the warnings is and
>> I'd rather be conservative. Others who run into the same error can expand
>> the case to gcc 5 if we see a pattern of failures.
>
> The version number in DIAG_IGNORE_NEEDS_COMMENT is not a restriction on
> where the warning is suppressed, it's for documentation purposes only, the
> most recent version known to need the suppression (so any such calls
> naming a version older than the oldest now supported for building glibc
> are appropriate for review to see if they are still needed).
Thanks. I mis-remembered that we did something with that number.
I'm going to drop this patch in favour of another one that actually fixes
all the issues compiling with -Os (unrelated to i486).
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Cheers,
Carlos.