Re: 3.3 PATCH: Add PNI support

["H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 07:29:21PM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
> 
> | Those patches backported from gcc 3.3 have been checked into SuSE and
> | Red Hat gcc 3.3 branches.  We'd like to see Prescott New Instructions
> | support in the official gcc 3.3 so that people don't have to get SuSE
> | or Red Hat gcc 3.3 branches to use PNI with a stable gcc.
> 
> HJ --
>   Please hold on.  Is this fixing any regression? 
> 

It doesn't fix any regression. The issue here is usability. People
have complained that gcc 3.3 is not used by Linux developers:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-10/msg00674.html

Both SuSE and Red Hat gcc 3.3 branches are much more usable on Linux
than gcc 3.3. If Linux developers want to use PNI, gcc 3.3 is useless
and gcc 3.4 is unstable. What choices do they have?


H.J.