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Re: "Experimental" features in releases

From: Janis Johnson <janis187 at us dot ibm dot com>
To: Dale Johannesen <dalej at apple dot com>
Cc: Richard Guenther <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>, Ivan Novick <ivan at 0x4849 dot net>, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:29 -0700
Subject: Re: "Experimental" features in releases
References: <4443E3EA.7000508@codesourcery.com> <44441463.8060107@0x4849.net> <84fc9c000604171431hed5f05dsc34adae16edf8002@mail.gmail.com> <4DC4DF6E-219B-44AC-B7E7-1A569708463F@apple.com>

On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 02:53:37PM -0700, Dale Johannesen wrote:
> >So from my point of view, the situation with -ftree-loop-linear is
> >fine - it's ICEing after all, not producing silently wrong-code.  For
> >experimental options (where
> >I would include all options not enabled by -O[123s]) known wrong- 
> >code bugs
> >should be fixed.
> 
> The case of this in 20256 did produce silent bad code when it was  
> reported, but that seems to have changed.

The 4.0 branch silently produces bad code; 4.1 and trunk now ICE.

Janis

References:
- "Experimental" features in releases
  - From: Mark Mitchell
- Re: "Experimental" features in releases
  - From: Ivan Novick
- Re: "Experimental" features in releases
  - From: Richard Guenther
- Re: "Experimental" features in releases
  - From: Dale Johannesen

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