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Re: [RFC] Contributing tree-ssa to mainline
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- To: dje at watson dot ibm dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 04 08:37:55 EST
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Contributing tree-ssa to mainline
If we want to develop a GCC 3.5 release without Tree-SSA, then we
should have specific, non-SSA feature goals that we want to
accomplish. Otherwise, what is the benefit of GCC 3.5 over additional
point releases of GCC 3.4 stable branch?
I don't understand your point. Since GCC is a volunteer project, there is
no practical way of forming such "goals" or schedules. We presume, unless
there's evidence to the contrary that people are going to be working on
improvements to GCC into the future.
If indeed a long period of time goes by without such improvements, it would
indeed be a good question about whether it would make sense to make a new
release before tree-ssa is ready, but I don't see how we can have any data
to make such a determination *now*.