On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 02:46:29PM +0530, Senthil Kumar Selvaraj wrote:
> > I'm not convinced it is desirable to backport such changes, it affects ABI,
> > people are used to deal with minor ABI changes in between major GCC
> > releases, but we'd need a strong reason to change it between minor releases.
>
> Hmm, I tracked this down from a (internal) bug reported on arm-none-eabi,
> where the
> inconsistent enum size (used in sizeof to malloc) was eventually causing
> heap corruption.
>
> When debugging the issue, I noticed you'd already backported
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69669, so I thought this
> should be good.
That one has been a regression, older GCCs handled it the same as does the 5
branch now. Is that the case here?
Jakub
