Re: Revised release criteria for GCC 4.0

[Björn Haase <bjoern dot m dot haase at web dot de>]

 Hi,

 I have just seen some discussion concerning running the test suite with the
 avr simulator.

 Using simulavr, I have so far succeeded the vast majority of the execution
 tests. Among the whole test suite there are only about 3 tests that cannot be
 executed since they need too much memory. (If interested: look at the 
corresponding  threads at the avr-libc-dev mailing list for a how-to). I have 
just posted the first test result at gcc-testresult@gcc.gnu.org.

 Having in mind that the avr community is fairly active, it is, in my opionion
 not justified to consider this platform to be not even secondary target.
 In my opinion it could be a big benefit also for the bigger platforms 
development:
 Those like us, who are working with tiny systems actually still look at their
 assembler code. We will recognize immediately if a change in the compiler
 mid-end, e.g. the register allocator results in strange or not optimal
 code.

 Yours,

 Björn