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RE: RFC: GCC 4.4 criteria - add Fortran as primary language?
- From: "Weddington, Eric" <eweddington at cso dot atmel dot com>
- To: "Joe Buck" <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com>, "Tim Prince" <tprince at computer dot org>
- Cc: "Joel Sherrill" <joel dot sherrill at oarcorp dot com>, "Tobias Burnus" <burnus at net-b dot de>, "GCC" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:34:57 -0700
- Subject: RE: RFC: GCC 4.4 criteria - add Fortran as primary language?
- References: <20080220223121.GB13837@synopsys.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Buck [mailto:Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 3:31 PM
> To: Tim Prince
> Cc: Joel Sherrill; Tobias Burnus; GCC
> Subject: Re: RFC: GCC 4.4 criteria - add Fortran as primary language?
>
> Maybe there could be a "semi-primary" or "experimental
> primary" status;
> a feature could be treated as primary, but with the understanding that
> the requirement will be waived if it causes excessive delay. The
> "experimental" label could be dropped after a few successful releases.
Well, why not mirror the Primary and Secondary Platform lists on the
back end, and have Primary Languages and Secondary Languages on the
front end, with separate criteria for each category? For examples,
Primary Languages would be C and C++, and put Ada, Java, and Fortran in
the Secondary Languages group.
Eric Weddington