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Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Janis Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 17:04 +0100, Richard Guenther wrote:
> > Status
> > ======
> >
> > The trunk is still in stage 4 which means it is open under the usual
> > release branch rules. Thus the trunk is open for regression and
> > documentation fixes only.
>
> What do you think about possibly-disruptive testsuite patches?
> In particular, the patch in
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-01/msg01496.html
>
> fixes an actual bug on Darwin (testsuite/38562) and cleans up
> earlier fixes for testsuite/36443. I didn't want to add it to
> trunk if the branch was imminent, but otherwise would it be OK,
> since not much is happening in stage 4 and there will apparently
> be plenty of time to revert it if there are problems?
It is up to the maintainers to decide. testsuite is somewhere on
the border of "documentation" for me ;)
What makes stage 4 easier than a branch is that you do not risk
to leak a regression relative to an earlier dot release into a release.
Richard.