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Re: Beyond GCC 3.0
- To: dewar at gnat dot com, jbuck at synopsys dot COM
- Subject: Re: Beyond GCC 3.0
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 00:56:13 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, jbuck at synopsys dot com, rjschwei at mindspring dot com
Joe said
<<Clearly maintainers of large programs will need to re-test their programs
with any major or minor release. If those maintainers expect to use GCC,
it will pay for them to test their code with development snapshots on
occasion, to help ensure that bugs either in GCC or their own software get
fixed as soon as possible. >>
I think you hugely underestimate the cost of testing code with new
versions of a compiler. Yes developers would like to see this happen,
but the costs can be prohibitive. Larege applications with millions of
lines of code are not just large versions of small programs, they are
a completely different beast.