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Re: Will tree-ssa be GCC 3.5?
Phil Edwards <phil@codesourcery.com> writes:
| Sorry, I just don't see what we gain from calling it 4.x when there's
| no user-visible change big enough to deserve a bump in the major number.
Calling the huge infrastructure change on tree-ssa branch "no
user-visible change big enough" is an exageration.
| Say that tree-ssa enables us to add a bunch of optimizations, and we do,
| and the inlining strategies settle down, and compile times stop going
| through the roof, and we can selectively enable/disable warnings inside
| code, and do all the other things that our users have been asking for --
| once those things are /done/, then we can hold up 4.0 and say, "Behold!"
-- Gaby