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Re: 3.3 PATCH: Add PNI support
- From: Jonathan Lennox <lennox at cs dot columbia dot edu>
- To: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, hjl at lucon dot org, jakub at redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 14:08:48 -0500
- Subject: Re: 3.3 PATCH: Add PNI support
- References: <20031103121629.2daf5321.bkoz@redhat.com>
Benjamin Kosnik writes:
>>> The current situation is gcc 3.3 is just a baseline. People have to
>>> apply patches on top of it to get a stable and usable compiler.
>>Indeed. It's kind of sub-optimal that Red Hat, SUSE and probably several
>>others including Debian, the BSDs and dozens of other distributinos need
>>the very same patch (or a variation thereof) while stock GCC is not
>>sufficiently usable.
>Yes, I think this indicates a structural flaw in the release process,
>probably caused by the uncertainty surrounding the lifetime of the 3.3.x
>branch. Isn't this the case with some IA64 patches as well?
>Does anybody know the union of patches to gcc-3_3-branch for SuSE and
>Red Hat?
Couldn't a backport branch for this sort of thing (on the same principle as
gcc-3_3-e500-branch) be created?
It'd need to be fairly focused in order not to distract from 3.4
stabilization, though.
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Jonathan Lennox
lennox at cs dot columbia dot edu