GCC 4.1.2 Status Report [2007-01-04]

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

I've decided to focus next on GCC 4.1.2.  After GCC 4.1.2, I will focus
on GCC 4.2.0.  At this point, I expect GCC 4.3 to remain in Stage 1 for
some time, while we work on GCC 4.1.2 and GCC 4.2.0.  So, I've been
looking at the GCC 4.1.2 Bugzilla entries.

(I'm sure one of your New Year's resolutions was "I shall fix more
regressions in 2007."  If not, it's not too late!)

Bugzilla has entries for 156 P1-P3 regressions.  Of course, some of the
P3s will in fact end up being P4 or P5, so that is not an entirely
accurate count.  There are 18 P1 regressions.  However, I am only aware
of two regressions relative to 4.1.0 or 4.1.1, as recorded here:

http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GCC_4.1.2_Status#preview

If you know of more, please let me know, and please update the Wiki page.

I'm not going to let bugs which existed in 4.1.[01] block 4.1.2 -- but I
am going to take a hard line on P1 regressions relative to the previous
4.1.x releases, and I'm going to grumble a lot about P2s.

So, I think we're relatively close to being able to do a 4.1.2 release.
 Let's tentatively plan on a first release candidate on or about January
19th, with a final release approximately a week later.

Thanks,

-- 
Mark Mitchell
CodeSourcery
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