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Re: C++ compile-time regressions (was: GCC 3.0.1 Status Report)
- To: mark at codesourcery dot com (Mark Mitchell)
- Subject: Re: C++ compile-time regressions (was: GCC 3.0.1 Status Report)
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot COM>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 14:21:15 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at (Gerald Pfeifer), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org (gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org)
Gerald:
> > Well, here I have to step up again, I'm afraid. If you look at
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-07/msg01376.html
> > you'll see that C++ projects heavily relying on STL apparently
> > simply cannot use GCC 3.0.
Mark:
> An extreme statement, but, that aside, as you know people are working
> on fixes. The point is that 3.0.1 is better than 3.0; that is good.
> Ideally, it would be better, but the point is to make consistent
> progress.
To make more progress and make 3.0.2 usable, we may need to broaden the
acceptance criteria beyond just fixing regressions. If we can find
fairly simple patches that improve performance, they should be considered
for inclusion.