Re: Will tree-ssa be GCC 3.5?

[kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)]

    Would the FSF officially release tree-ssa if only the Fortran 95 
    frontend worked well?

Who knows.  Nobody can answer such a question until such an eventuality
would happen because the details are what matters.

    And would the FSF support forking the tree-ssa/gfortran project?

    Personally, I think forking GCC is a Bad Idea.

Perhaps, but it's *required* for any commercial product!  Any company that
offers commercial support services for a GNU product *must* have their own
local copy of the tree: they cannot have a situation where people not under
their control can break things that affect their customers.

The goal is to keep such trees as sychronized as possible, but the nature of
such development means that there will always be lags in both directions.

    Nor would I be sanguine about funding all of GCC when my primary
    interest is Fortran 95.

See my previous message.  A company that only wants to support an Ada or C++
compiler must *also* be sure to have enough funding to fix problems in
GCC backends or the middle end: it *cannot* depend on others to do it.

    And thus my original question: nder *current circumstances*, will 
    tree-ssa become a released project, and if so, what is a good guess for 
    its release?

Again, if there's a commerical need for such, you need to contact companies
that accept development contracts for GCC and see if they will submit a
proposal to do that development and, if so, by when and how much they'll
charge.  Anything else, as has been said many times, is nothing more than 
a "guess" and not something you can rely on commercially.