Re: GCC 4.8.0 Status Report (2012-10-29), Stage 1 to end soon

[Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 02:07:55PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> > I'd like to close the stage 1 phase of GCC 4.8 development
> > on Monday, November 5th.  If you have still patches for new features you'd
> > like to see in GCC 4.8, please post them for review soon.  Patches
> > posted before the freeze, but reviewed shortly after the freeze, may
> > still go in, further changes should be just bugfixes and documentation
> > fixes.
> 
> I'd like to get the Sparc cbcond stuff in (3 revisions posted) which
> is waiting for Eric B. to do some Solaris specific work.

That has been posted in stage 1, so it is certainly ok to commit it even
during early stage 3.  And, on a case by case basis exceptions are always
possible.  This hasn't changed in the last few years.  By the reviewed
shortly after the freeze I just want to say that e.g. having large intrusive
patches posted now, but reviewed late December is already too late.

As for postponing end of stage 1 by a few weeks because of the storm, I'm
afraid if we want to keep roughly timely releases we don't have that luxury.
If you look at http://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html, ending stage 1 around end of
October happened already for 4.6 and 4.7, for 4.5 if was a month earlier and
for 4.4 even two months earlier.  The 4.7 bugfixing went IMHO smothly, but
we certainly have to expect lots of bugfixing.

> I'd also like to enable LRA for at least 32-bit sparc, even if I can't
> find the time to work on auditing 64-bit completely.

I agree with Eric that it is better to enable it for the whole target
together, rather than based on some options.  Enabling LRA in early stage 3
for some targets should be ok, if it doesn't require too large and intrusive
changes to the generic code that could destabilize other targets.

	Jakub