re: toolchain/58411: GCC/x86_64 10.5 and 12.4 miscompile GCC/sh3 12.4

[matthew green <mrg%eterna23.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR toolchain/58411; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: matthew green <mrg%eterna23.net@localhost>
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Subject: re: toolchain/58411: GCC/x86_64 10.5 and 12.4 miscompile GCC/sh3 12.4
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 11:14:17 +1000

 >  That reminded me about a bug I once stubled into:
 >  
 >    https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/issues/87
 >  
 >  Given that gcc is now written, afaik, in a mix of C and C++, it makes
 >  me wonder...
 
 all of GCC proper compiles with a c++ compiler, except for the
 things like libiberty and libgmp etc.  between gcc 10 and 12
 they finally renamed all the .c files to .cc, meaning a minor
 hack for us could be removed :)
 
 
 .mrg.