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Re: Should there be a GCC 4.0.1 release quickly?

From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
To: Steven Bosscher <stevenb at suse dot de>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, mark at codesourcery dot com
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:53:07 -0700
Subject: Re: Should there be a GCC 4.0.1 release quickly?
References: <6100951.1114706710297.SLOX.WebMail.wwwrun@extimap.suse.de> <20050428165539.GC30649@synopsys.com> <5904556.1114709492854.SLOX.WebMail.wwwrun@extimap.suse.de>

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 07:31:32PM +0200, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> Yeah, but in this case the patch that introduced the bug was one of
> the last to go in before the release (it was the fix for PRs 20490
> and 20929, the patch for that went in on April 17).  So it was more
> an unfortunate fix than a typical .0 bug.

Again, that's not surprising.  There's always a risk that a patch can
create a new bug, and the regression test suite only proves we haven't
re-broken old bugs.  Late fixes are particularly risky, because of the
limited testing they get.

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