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Re: State of maturity for gcc 2.95.3 and gcc 2.96
- To: Bernd Schmidt <bernds at redhat dot co dot uk>
- Subject: Re: State of maturity for gcc 2.95.3 and gcc 2.96
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 12:41:16 -0400
- cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien at FreeBSD dot org>, Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
>>>>> Bernd Schmidt writes:
>> Since 3.0 is still quite some time away, can 2.95.3 finally be released?
>> Some very major bugs have been fixed, but commits have been very cautious
>> to that branch. I'd almost imagine all that would be needed is to do a
>> checkout and tar it up.
Bernd> You'd want to fix at least one new bug introduced in reload...
Yes, I believe that I ran into this too while trying to backport
some more 64-bit PowerPC bugfixes which should go into a gcc-2.95.3
release. Without active testing, we cannot simply tar up the current
branch and call it 2.95.3 without trading one set of bugs for another.
David