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Re: Revised release criteria for GCC 4.0
- From: Paul Schlie <schlie at comcast dot net>
- To: <mark at codesourcery dot com>,<gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>,<gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:40:45 -0500
- Subject: Re: Revised release criteria for GCC 4.0
> Working with the SC, I have prepared revised release criteria for GCC 4.0,
> which are available here:
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.0/criteria.html
>
> These revisions include changes to the set of primary and secondary platforms
> to more accurately reflect the platforms currently thought to be important,
> and also include more realistic goals for validation.
>
> Comments are welcome, and we might make changes if there is sufficient
> momentum in a particular direction. However, I would suggest that you not
> spend too much energy picking nits; our release criteria are guidelines, not
> absolutes.
Although not a primary or secondary platform (which are all relatively
larger 32/64 bit targets), might it make sense to try to at least include
one small 8-bit secondary target representative of smaller simpler RISC
machines (such as AVR); with the objective that the target should at least
build (and ideally generate reasonably correct, albeit possibly not optimal
code), in an effort to try to maintain a more reasonably target size neutral
code base, rather than let unintended large target biases unnecessarily
manifest themselves into GCC?