Re: Mainline is now regression and documentation fixes only

[Richard Guenther <rguenther at suse dot de>]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Richard Sandiford wrote:

> Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de> writes:
> > As we now reached the goal of less than 100 open serious regressions
> > against GCC 4.3, we are as of now in regression and documentation fixes
> > only mode.  This means that for patches going on the trunk the same
> > rules as for release branches apply.
> >
> > The next milestone before the release of GCC 4.3.0 is to get down
> > the priority one (P1) regressions against GCC 4.3 down to zero.  At
> > the point we reach that goal, either by fixing all P1 bugs or by
> > downgrading less important ones to P2, the mainline will be freezed
> > to prepare for a release candidate.  Around the same time we will
> > branch and the opening of stage1 for GCC 4.4 development will be
> > announced.
> >
> > There are 5 P1 bugs open against GCC 4.3, one of it has patches,
> > three of them are C++ regressions assigned to Mark and one bug
> > does not seem likely to be fixed (PR31529), which makes it a likely
> > candidate for downgrading.
> 
> Please could someone have a look at:
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-01/msg00415.html
> 
> It fixes a pretty important regression for MIPS GNU/Linux, and if
> the patch isn't acceptable, I'd like to know soon so that I have
> time to implement whatever alternative we decide on.

It doesn't mention a PR though you say its an important regression.
I also see that it doesn't include a single testcase.  As of the
fix itself, I'd like to have a more backend-experienced person
look at it.

Ian?

Thanks,
Richard.