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Re: GCC 3.3, GCC 3.4
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery 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 21:57:24 +0100
- Subject: Re: GCC 3.3, GCC 3.4
- References: <48900000.1044031690@warlock.codesourcery.com>
Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
> [...]
> As for GCC 3.3, I guess we'd better play it a bit by ear. It doesn't
> appear that most people think we can make March 1. I'm going to keep
> that as my own internal target, so that I have something to motivate
> me to fix a bug or two on a Saturday night, but we'll not be too firm
> about it.
I would prefer if you would be firm about it. For us gcc 3.3 looks
quite good already and I'd like to have a March 1 release [1].
Let me just tell you that some SuSE engineers will spend - and have
already spent - a good amount of time on GCC 3.3 [2]. We are working
on quality issues as indicated by some of the PRs that come in.
We're testing GCC 3.3 mainly on x86, x86-64, ia64 and PowerPC but also
do limited testing on some other platforms including s390. Testing
means building of over 2000 packages and testing those packages
reveals miscompilations, bootstrap failures, internal compiler errors,
errors in the packages etc. - and we try to fix those problems.
Thanks for everybody working on GCC!
Andreas
Footnotes:
[1] Or not much later.
[2] Unfortunatly some of them will be also tied to merge in patches
to 3.4, so I cannot commit anybody fulltime. Extending the 3.4
deadline might help here a bit but at this time I don't see this
as critical.
--
Andreas Jaeger
SuSE Labs aj@suse.de
private aj@arthur.inka.de
http://www.suse.de/~aj