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GCC 4.1 Status Report (2005-07-22)
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- To: gcc mailing list <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 13:22:43 -0700
- Subject: GCC 4.1 Status Report (2005-07-22)
We have been in Stage 3 for a little while now. I'm sure a few more
patches that were proposed in Stage 2 will find their way into 4.1,
but we're approximately feature-complete at this point. Thank you for
respecting the process. I'm going to make a call for 4.2 features
when the 4.1 release branch is created, but it's not too early to
start thinking about what you plan to do in 4.2.
There are 225 regressions open against GCC 4.1. About half of these
(119) are not regressions in 4.0, i.e., they are new regressions
introduced in the course of 4.1. While it does seem that the
regression rate has declined slightly from 4.0, it still seems rather
high.
As one would expect, given the current focus of the developers, many
of the problems relate to the optimizers: wrong code, crashes, or
failures to optimize.
All in all, I'd say that we look like we're doing OK. As this is
Stage 3, the focus is now on fixing bugs, and that's certainly what we
need to do. Stage 3 is scheduled to end September 8th. I think
that's going to end up slipping, unless we really start knocking down
bugs, but hopefully we can get close.
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Mark Mitchell
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