Re: xsrc/50353: Stippled regions rendered as black on i82810e using xf86-video-intel built with GCC 4.8.x

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%consolidated.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR xsrc/50353; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "John D. Baker" <jdbaker%consolidated.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: xsrc/50353: Stippled regions rendered as black on i82810e using
 xf86-video-intel built with GCC 4.8.x
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2021 16:12:05 -0500 (CDT)

 On Sun, 25 Jul 2021, David Holland wrote:
 
 >  On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 07:20:00PM +0000, John D. Baker wrote:
 >   >  Using a recent build of i386-8.0_BETA w/native Xorg, stippled regions
 >   >  render correctly.
 >   >  
 >   >  As the problem appears to be constrained to the period when GCC 4.8.x
 >   >  is the native compiler, only the netbsd-7* branches are affected.  For
 >   >  them, modular/pkgsrc Xorg works very well on machines with i82810e video.
 >  
 >  Given that -7 is EOL now, should this PR be closed?
 
 And more importantly, I have not observed a recurrence of the problem
 with subsequent GCC compiler versions (and Xorg updates).  I don't boot
 affected machines often.
 
 So, yes, I believe this one can be closed.
 
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