Re: GCC 3.0 Release Criteria

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <200005030611.IAA01076@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de>you write:
  > > I've found it difficult at times even to get OS-independent bug
  > > fixes (e.g. to the ARM port) in because (AFAICT) people were too
  > > busy arguing about yet another Linux/i386 kernel problem.
  > 
  > Out of curiosity: Can you please point to specific patches in the
  > gcc-patches archives, that should have been installed in a certain
  > release, but did not get installed because of Linux?
Yes, Charles, please do that.

  > > E.g., the NetBSD project has been forced to maintain our own GCC
  > > branch, because no release of the compiler has ever worked well
  > > enough on all the platforms we support.  This is certainly not due
  > > to any lack of effort on our part; I've personally spent at least 2
  > > weeks last year *just* tracking down random compiler bugs.
  > 
  > Same question here: Have these patches been submitted to GCC in a
  > timely manner? Did you get an indication as to why they were not
  > installed? Are they installed in GCC now?
Right. 

This is one reason why opening up the development process is a win.  If
the ball was dropped it should be easy to find out by looking through the
archives.

jeff