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Re: Will tree-ssa be GCC 3.5?
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- To: zack at codesourcery dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 29 Nov 03 19:05:53 EST
- Subject: Re: Will tree-ssa be GCC 3.5?
I don't agree. Major version number bumps should be reserved for
changes which are guaranteed to break compatibility for everyone.
That certainly was not the case for GCC 2 to GCC 3. Perhaps there was
a compatibility issue with some g++ users, but it didn't affect any
compatibility with C, Obj-C, Fortran, or Ada.
I agree that the tree-ssa framework would be a significantly large
enough change to justify a major version number increment.