On 10/22/2016 10:28 AM, Martin Sebor wrote:
Yes. As long as a particular branch isn't frozen, you can backport fixes, especially regression fixes.Bug 71115 - [5/6 Regression] Missing warning: excess elements in struct initializer, was fixed on trunk but the bug is still open since the patch hasn't been backported to the affected branches.Is it okay to go ahead and backport it to 6.x and 5.x? The original patch was posted here: https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2016-05/msg01423.html
jeff
