Fwd: GCC 4.8.0 Status Report (2012-03-02), Stage 1 starts now

[Tobias Burnus <burnus at net-b dot de>]

As GCC 4.8 development has started:

a) To be committed:

* Optional arguments by Mikael (PR50981)
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2012-02/msg00061.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2012-02/msg00062.html


b) To be reviewed:

* TYPE(*) patch
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2012-03/msg00004.html

* implicitly cleanup-modules
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2012-03/msg00000.html

* I/O: libfortran - RFC: Shared vtables
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2012-02/msg00067.html


c) Regression status (gfortran):
52452 - [4.5-4.6] INTRINSIC etime: just fixed for 4.7 (and 4.8)
51520 - [4.6 only] ICE on valid code
52062 - [4.6 only] ICE on valid code
50410 - [4.6-4.8] ICE for invalid code (double initialization)
50981 - [4.4-4.7] Elemental and optional (needs backporting). For 4.8: 
missing features
52158 - [4.7/4.8] Pseudo-regression with character(len=:) function 
results (now rejected)
49791 - [4.4-4.8] Namelist read in a special case of a vendor extension
42954 - [4.4-4.8] TARGET CPP macros (since libcpp is used)


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: GCC 4.8.0 Status Report (2012-03-02), Stage 1 starts now
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 12:18:46 +0100 (CET)
From: Richard Guenther

Status
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The trunk has branched for the GCC 4.7 release and is now open
again for general development, stage 1.  Please consider not
disrupting it too much during the RC phase of GCC 4.7 so it
is possible to test important fixes for 4.7.0 on it.


Quality Data
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Priority          #   Change from Last Report
--------        ---   -----------------------
P1                0   -  2
P2               69   -  1
P3                1   -  1
--------        ---   -----------------------
Total            70   -  4


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