On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 7:08 PM Cory Fields <li...@coryfields.com> wrote: > > gcc_qsort as introduced by Alexander Monakov [0] in trunk for 9.x is a > great change that defines the order of otherwise-unbalanced internal > sorts, some of which would otherwise cause bootstrapping failures. > > I would like to request that these it as well as subsequent fixups > (all listed specifically below) be backported to the 8.x branch. They > apply cleanly to 8.x, and I can confirm that they fix qsort-related > bootstrap failures at least in my case of crossing x86_64-gnu to > x86_64-musl. > > Would there be any downside to backporting?
It is not something we generally backport. > The changes that I locally backported and tested successfully were: > r260216: Introduce gcc_qsort > r260222: gcc_qsort: avoid oversized memcpy temporaries > r262092: gcc_qsort: avoid overlapping memcpy (PR 86311) > r264065: qsort_chk: call from gcc_qsort instead of wrapping it > > [0]: https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2018-05/msg00479.html > > Regards, > Cory Fields
