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Re: Mainline is now regression and documentation fixes only
- From: Richard Sandiford <rsandifo at nildram dot co dot uk>
- To: Richard Guenther <rguenther at suse dot de>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org, libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:57:37 +0000
- Subject: Re: Mainline is now regression and documentation fixes only
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801231159500.23003@zhemvz.fhfr.qr>
Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de> writes:
> As we now reached the goal of less than 100 open serious regressions
> against GCC 4.3, we are as of now in regression and documentation fixes
> only mode. This means that for patches going on the trunk the same
> rules as for release branches apply.
>
> The next milestone before the release of GCC 4.3.0 is to get down
> the priority one (P1) regressions against GCC 4.3 down to zero. At
> the point we reach that goal, either by fixing all P1 bugs or by
> downgrading less important ones to P2, the mainline will be freezed
> to prepare for a release candidate. Around the same time we will
> branch and the opening of stage1 for GCC 4.4 development will be
> announced.
>
> There are 5 P1 bugs open against GCC 4.3, one of it has patches,
> three of them are C++ regressions assigned to Mark and one bug
> does not seem likely to be fixed (PR31529), which makes it a likely
> candidate for downgrading.
Please could someone have a look at:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-01/msg00415.html
It fixes a pretty important regression for MIPS GNU/Linux, and if
the patch isn't acceptable, I'd like to know soon so that I have
time to implement whatever alternative we decide on.
Thanks,
Richard