GCC Release Status (2004-05-23)

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

GCC 3.4.1
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Target release date: June 15th.

There are 112 bugs targeted at 3.4.1.  I expect that a number of these
will be pushed back to later releases.  However, many of these defects
look to be pretty serious; we've got some work to do. 

31 of those defects are C++; most of those look relatively tractable.
Many are remaining fallout from the new C++ parser; that was a
dramatic enough change that it's not surprising to see that there are
still corner-cases that are being mishandled.

Now that tree-ssa has been merged in on the mainline, I'm going to be
increased the 3.4.1-oriented pressure.  To that end, I'll be sending
out email directly to people who I think can help with fixing some of
these regressions.

GCC 3.5
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Target stage 2 date: July 1st.

The tree-ssa merge is complete, and starting to settle.

I plan to close Stage 1 on or about July 1st.  The tree-ssa changes
are plenty of change for one release cycle, and going through the
release process will force us to knock a lot of the bugs out of
tree-ssa.

There are 280 (!) bugs targeted at 3.5.0.  That is in addition to the
112 bugs targeted at 3.4.1, some of which will likely be pushed back
to 3.5.0.  I suspect that some of these are incorrectly targeted at
3.5.0, since I expect that some are not regressions.

It is unclear yet whether or not the LNO branch will be merged in
before 3.5.0, but I hope that will be possible.  Depending on the
state of LNO, it might be possible to take it during Stage 2 instead
of Stage 1.

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