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Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- To: hjl at lucon dot org
- Subject: Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 01 12:49:12 EDT
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
I can tell that right now, it is not an easy job to do. It takes more
resources you can image. Why not let Linux/xxxBSD distribution vendors
do it for us. The only thing we have to do is to make frequent bug fix
releases to fix the regressions they have found. But if it takes a few
months for a bug fix, I don't think any Linux/xxxBSD distribution
vendors will try the new gcc to build their whole distribution. They
need a responsive compiler provider.
I don't follow you. They would be doing this *before* a release, on a
tree that is frozen as part of the release process. We would not make a
release until they confirm that it works.