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Re: 3.3 PATCH: Add PNI support

From: Nathanael Nerode <neroden at twcny dot rr dot com>
To: hjl at lucon dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:34:55 -0500
Subject: Re: 3.3 PATCH: Add PNI support

It doesn't fix any regression. The issue here is usability. People
have complained that gcc 3.3 is not used by Linux developers:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-10/msg00674.html

To quote an earlier message in that thread, "that's not the way it works". I believe that bolting new features onto 3.3 at this point was not in the game plan, although the 3.3 release manager can decide for himself of course.

Both SuSE and Red Hat gcc 3.3 branches are much more usable on Linux
than gcc 3.3. If Linux developers want to use PNI, gcc 3.3 is useless
and gcc 3.4 is unstable. What choices do they have?

Use 3.4. It's in stage 3 (bug fixes only) and is stabilizing quickly (despite a couple of nasty bootstrap problems which have shown up recently).

Or, use assembly language.

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