[LLVMdev] 3.5.1 Testing Phase II Begins

[Tom Stellard]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 11:39:42AM -0800, Chandler Carruth wrote:
> Hey Tom,
> 
> David has pointed out to me that we have some *really* bad bugs in
> instcombine in 3.5 that are starting to seriously impact users.
> http://llvm.org/PR22050 is a great example. I'm actually surprised LLVM
> itself doesn't trip over this bug, and I suspect an innocent change to LLVM
> could result in that.
> 
> Do you think it's possible to spin a rc3 with a couple more patches to fix
> this? I think David has already curated the patches and would be willing to
> ensure they merge cleanly. I'm going to help review them as OK. My hope is
> that this won't require a huge delay in 3.5.1, but what do you think?
> 

The release is already somewhat delayed due to the holidays.  I was hoping
-rc2 would be the last one, but there may be other issues anyway.

Do you have the list of patches that David wants to merge?  I will review them
and then he can merge them into the 3.5 branch so they are ready in case there
is an -rc3.

-Tom

> -Chandler
> 
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Tom Stellard <tom at stellard.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just tagged 3.5.1-rc2, so testing can begin.  Remember to use the 3.5
> > branch of the test-suite.  If you have any questions, let me know.
> >
> > -Tom
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