Hi again,

On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 11:43:30AM -0600, Jeff Law wrote:
> On 4/5/23 11:38, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >Right.  But it seems to me it has been there all those years?  Does the
> >new testcase fail on older branches?  Even if not, it seems clear it is
> >wrong on the older branches as well!
> I bet if I put the special pattern into an old branch, then ran the 
> testcase it'd probably trigger.
> 
> >But if you think it is too dangerous to backport, let's not.
> It should be crazy safe.  Not a tall worried about it being dangerous. 
> More a case of not seeing a lot of value given how narrow the problem is.

Please just do the usual then?  git cherry-pick -x $some_hash  on the
release branches, and push it if that works flawlessly?  And if it
doesn't, *that* is a good reason to skip backporting it, sure :-)


Segher

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