Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2008-11-17)

["H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>]

Hi,

I'd like to pointer that  the new __optimize__  attribute doesn't work
correctly:

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37565

Will it be fixed in 4.4?

H.J.
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On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote:
> Status
> ======
>
> We are now in regression and documentation fixes only mode.
>
> When the number of P1 bugs drops to zero and the number of
> P1, P2 and P3 bugs reaches 100, we'll branch 4.4.0 and open
> 4.5 stage 1.
>
> The old register allocator hasn't been removed yet, but will be before
> branching.  There are still several targets that haven't been converted
> to IRA; unless they are converted soon, they will be dropped.  The
> unconverted targets are:
>
> arc
> m32c
> m68hc11
> mmix
> pdp11
> score
> vax
>
> Quality Data
> ============
>
> Priority          #     Change from Last Report
> --------        ---     -----------------------
> P1               13     -  4
> P2              114     - 27
> P3                3     +- 0
> --------        ---     -----------------------
> Total           130     - 31
>
> We've made a good progress on fixing P1 and especially P2 bugs, but
> File /tmp/X not changed so no update needed
> [jakub@tucnak gcc]$ cat /tmp/X
> "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
> GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2008-11-17)
>
> Status
> ======
>
> We are now in regression and documentation fixes only mode.
>
> When the number of P1 bugs drops to zero and the number of
> P1, P2 and P3 bugs reaches 100, we'll branch 4.4.0 and open
> 4.5 stage 1.
>
> The old register allocator hasn't been removed yet, but will be before
> branching.  There are still several targets that haven't been converted
> to IRA, so unless they are converted soon, they will be dropped.  The
> unconverted targets are:
>
> arc
> m32c
> m68hc11
> mmix
> pdp11
> score
> vax
>
> Quality Data
> ============
>
> Priority          #     Change from Last Report
> --------        ---     -----------------------
> P1               13     -  4
> P2              114     - 27
> P3                3     +- 0
> --------        ---     -----------------------
> Total           130     - 31
>
> We've made a good progress on fixing P1 and especially P2 bugs, but
> still have many to fix before we reach the criteria for branching
> 4.4.0.  Several of the P2 and P1 bugs have patches posted, but
> not reviewed yet.
>
> All but one P1s are regressions from 4.3 and there are 25 P2 regressions
> from 4.3, especially those should be given attention.
>
> Previous Report
> ===============
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2008-11/msg00007.html
>
> The next report for 4.4.0 will be sent by Joseph.
>