Re: GCC var-tracking-assignments: testing and bug reports appreciated

[Josh Boyer <jwboyer gmail com>]

On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 10:46:26PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>Jakub built gcc-4.4.1-10 earlier today, with a new feature that
>generates much better debug information in optimized programs.
>
>The feature has been under development for a couple of years, and it's
>recently been accepted into GCC, for GCC 4.5.  We've backported it for
>Fedora 12.

Why are you backporting something like this from a non-released compiler
into F12 _after_ Alpha and particularly _after_ the mass rebuild?

josh