Re: [PATCH] Improve i386 prologue analyzer

Andrew Cagney
2004-08-07T18:52:29Z

>>Remember, at present MIPS is dead in the water. For how long should we
>>> delay pushing out a fix for that?
>
>
> mips-irix has been broken for a long time now, and I don't remember
> seeing any complaint. So I don't think we have that much pressure
> to produce a good release within a short time frame. If anything,
> I think it can wait until 6.3. The alternative for the users is to
> either use 5.3, which was pretty good - or use a patched-up 6.2.1
> with the couple of fixes I sent (this may be necessary if they use
> a very recent version of GCC, I don't know).

For MIPS-IRIX, yes.

Here the question is generic mips and the bfd/ fix you back ported.
That is a good reason for a prompt re-spin of 6.2.

Andrew