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Re: [RFC] Our release cycles are getting longer
- From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- To: François-Xavier Coudert <fxcoudert at gmail dot com>
- Cc: GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, Diego Novillo <dnovillo at redhat dot com>, Fortran List <fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:18:28 -0800
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Our release cycles are getting longer
- References: <19c433eb0701250218m67820111g282e3dd610de7992@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 11:18:34AM +0100, François-Xavier Coudert wrote:
> [sorry for breaking the thread; stupid gmail doesn't want to add
> custom References headers]
>
> >It may be that not too many people pick up 4.2.0. But, if 4.3 isn't
> >looking very stable, there will be a point when people decide that 4.2.0
> >is looking very attractive. The worst outcome of trying to do a 4.2.0
> >release is that we'll fix some things that are also bugs in 4.3; most
> >4.2 bugs are also in 4.3.
>
> >From the Fortran point of view, and however limited it might be,
> skipping the 4.2.0 release would be very unfortunate. We've been
> working hard on it, and especially in recent time, many bug fixes have
> been deemed to risky to backport to the 4.1 branch. 4.3 is still a
> long way down the road, and the 4.2 branch has interesting features
> even from the non-Fortran point of view.
>
Gcc 4.2 has a serious FP performace issue:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2007-01/msg00408.html
on both ia32 and x86-64. If there will be a 4.2.0 release, I hope it
will be addressed.
H.J.