Re: GCC 4.3 branch created, 4.4 opens for stage1

[Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 05:44:27PM -0800, Janis Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 18:18 -0500, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > As I've mentioned last week, I've created branches/gcc-4_3-branch.
> > The trunk is now 4.4 stage 1, the branch is open for regression bugfixes
> > and documentation fixes only, but additionally all checkings require
> > RM approval in addition to normal approval.
> > Before the release candidate is cut, it would be good to fix the 4 P1
> > bugs we have now:
> 
> > and:
> 
> > ppc-linux -maltivec stuff - assuming a solution is agreed on quickly
> 
> See http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-02/msg00802.html for
> tested version of latest (final?) patch.

If David approves it, ok with me, though perhaps a few words in
gcc-4.3/changes.html about this wouldn't hurt, including a warning that
some vectors are passed as arguments/retval differently depending on if
the chosen -mcpu supports Altivec ISA or not (and depending on
-m{no-}altivec).

	Jakub