Re: Important: Development Plan for Future Releases

["Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Mark Mitchell wrote:

> any of these provisions.  And, of course, we understand that this
> policy is very likely to require revisions as we go forward.

This policy - updated as and when revisions are made - should go in
policy.html or some similarly named file in htdocs (linked to from
index.html and cvswrite.html and maybe contribute.html).

> So as to avoid surprising anyone, the first Stage 1 (see below) period
> will begin August 15th, 2001.  Therefore, GCC 3.1 will be released on
> or about April 15, 2002.  In the meantime, we will continue to make
> bug-fix releases based on GCC 3.0.x.

The dates and important platforms should also be listed there or in
another such file.

>     - The branch has been validated on three different targets,
>       each targeting a different microprocessor family.  Validation
>       should consist of bootstrapping the compiler (unless that is
>       impossible for the microprocessor selected) and checking that
>       there are no new regression test failures.  It is acceptable
>       to use a simulator for validation; the use of real hardware
>       is not required.

So, which simulators support bootstrapping - running the compiler itself
on the simulator - or, conversely, which are suitable simulators for 
microprocessors on which the compiler itself can't run?

There should be a link to http://www.cygnus.com/~geoffk/simtest-howto.html
somewhere, though not necessarily from here.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk