Extension elimination pass breaks SPU (Fw: spu gcc-4.5 linaro build failure)

[Mark Mitchell]

On 12/20/2010 9:01 AM, Ulrich Weigand wrote:

> Well, I understand we -as Linaro- would like to see Ubuntu base their
> compiler on ours, but Ubuntu prefers to use a single source base for the
> compiler for all their supported platforms, including SPU.  If we break
> some of those other platforms in the Linaro compiler, that just creates
> extra problems for Ubuntu ...

I certainly understand that desire; I'm just asking how sustainable it
is and where the commitments ought to lie.  I'd just guess that this
would be an ongoing problem, and that there will be a tension between
"make the best possible ARM Linux system" and "don't break other
architectures".

Thank you,

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