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Re: Should patches for PR target/1532 go on 3.4 branch?
Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Hmmm, interesting. There are several PRs which have a target of 3.4.0
> but which don't show up on your list because they do not have 3.4 in
> the subject line. This includes some critical PRs like 11326 and
> 13316 (I submitted the latter) which are not regressions but are ABI
> issues and as such should be considered before a release.
There are many critical issues with GCC, but it's generically too late for 3.4
to consider non regressions. If a bug is not a regression, it means that it was
tested up to 2.95 and all the versions were affected the bug. Which means that,
even if it's an important bug, it's very very unlikely that code exists which
is broken by it. It might have been worked around years ago already. Of course,
a critical bug is important to fix in mainline. But release branches should
focus on fixing regressions, i.e. not breaking existing and working code.
In other words, I don't see anything wrong with Mark's way of checking for bugs
to be fixed before 3.4.0.
Giovanni Bajo