Re: GCC front-ends

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:08:04PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> That’s a bug, which may have been fixed in 4.8.2 no?  I’d rather not
>> workaround that if it’s been/being fixed.
>
> Speaking of which, should we maybe switch to 4.8.2 for building the
> distribution? Now would be the right time to update core-updates.

Yes, definitely.

I wanted to test 4.8.2 in master first, but for that I was waiting for
Nikita’s work to avoid any disruption.

> Mark also suggested a new set of bootstrap-tarballs with a common date
> and common versions of all programs for all architectures, including
> mips.

Probably a good idea.

I wonder if this would also be an opportunity to do that fixed-point
thing while we’re at rebuilding everything.  Or is it too ambitious?

Ludo’.