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Re: GCC 3.3, GCC 3.4
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Matt Austern <austern at apple dot com>
- Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>, Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 11:01:32 -0800
- Subject: Re: GCC 3.3, GCC 3.4
--On Friday, January 31, 2003 10:52:23 AM -0800 Matt Austern
<austern@apple.com> wrote:
On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 08:48 AM, Mark Mitchell wrote:
Nobody seems to be objecting particularly much to the idea of leaving
stage 1 for GCC 3.4 on March 15th. So, let's make that firm. We've
already got two major pieces of new technology: a new C++ parser, and
PCH support.
I have two concerns about the March 15 deadline.
First, a technical concern: people have also been talking about putting
the new register allocator into 3.4. I'd like to see that as a third
major piece of new technology, which would imply a later deadline.
What's the prognosis for the register allocator? When will it be ready
to check in, and when will the bugs be out? (I consider the C++ parser
to still be too buggy to release, even though it works well for most
code. It passed the tests, which got it into the tree, but people have
certainly been finding problems.)
Second, a process concern: March 15 for the end of 3.4 phase 1 is
awfully close to the 3.3 code freeze.
I don't think we can worry about this much, since we don't really know
when the 3.3 freeze is going to be. There's not a whole lot of support
for doing a 3.3 release at all; at this point, I think we should see how
3.3 develops before worrying about it too much.
--
Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
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