Bug#762270: perl: divergence tracking: debian/regcomp-mips-optim.diff

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 03:05:53PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 12:49:51PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > Source: perl
> > Version: 5.20.0-3
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > This patch disables a gcc optimisation on mips and mipself owing to
> > a presumed gcc bug. Is there any reason not to forward this one
> > upstream?
> 
> The important thing is really to get gcc fixed. I don't think
> there's even a bug on that side for this.

Agreed. Aurelien said he would investigate this, so CCing him in
in case he needs anything more from us.

> But yeah, upstream would benefit from the workaround too,
> so no reason really.

*nod* that's done now as 
<https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122817>

Cheers,
Dominic.