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Re: Will tree-ssa be GCC 3.5?
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 30 Nov 2003 01:17:13 +0100
- Subject: Re: Will tree-ssa be GCC 3.5?
- Organization: Integrable Solutions
- References: <10311300005.AA18027@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) writes:
| 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.
Yup, I'm also of the opinion that the tree-ssa work, when merged into
mainline, should be followed by major bump 3.x -> 4.0.0. It represents a
significant restructure of the overall GCC structrure and external
behaviour that it makes the most sense to do that bump.
-- Gaby