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Re: GCC 4.7.0 Status Report (2011-09-09)
- From: Torvald Riegel <triegel at redhat dot com>
- To: aldyh at redhat dot com
- Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:15:53 +0200
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.7.0 Status Report (2011-09-09)
- References: <20110909070930.GP27949@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> <m3hb4hj2d3.fsf@houston.quesejoda.com>
On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 08:51 -0500, Aldy Hernandez wrote:
> Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > In particular, is transactional-memory branch mergeable within
> > a month and half, at least some parts of cxx-mem-model branch,
> > bitfield lowering? What is the status of lra, reload-2a, pph,
>
> Torvald and I are looking into getting things merge read, but...
>
> The main problem seems to be that the TM community still hasn't formally
> submitted the C++ changes to the standards committee, and are still
> swinging between two alternate syntax implementations. So unless, this
> gets resolved in the next month, transactional memory will have to sit
> this one out.
>
> Torvald, is this a fair assessment?
The group working on the C++ TM specification has made progress, and I
think we now have something that is basically okay for most people that
are involved.
Thus, I think that it would be good to include TM.
Torvald