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Re: GCC 3.3, GCC 3.4


On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> Shipping GCC 3.3.0 on March 1 will require enormous effort.

Agreed.  What worries me more, though, is that currently we have
~59 high priority PRs = regressions for the 3.2-branch (most of
which also apply to 3.3).

I believe we should try to tackle these first (and deliver a
sensibly improved GCC 3.2.3 after the forthcoming 3.2.2).

>> There's more I'd like to say, but I can't.  Hopefully soon.
> This continues to annoy me, but I understand why you do it. The longer
> you say this line, the less I believe there's anything to say.

Given how many ABI bugs CodeSourcery developers have already fixed
(and the fact that I cannot remember Mark ever promising something
he hasn't kept), I'm much more optimistic.

BTW, if you consider my finding of C ABI breakage for several, not so
minor platforms today, apparently we could also use a C ABI testsuite.

> I think the longer gcc, as a project, goes on without an autobuild
> continuous regression checker, the worse off things will get. Somebody
> [...] will have to step up with the bandwidth, time, and machine to do
> this.

Fully agreed.

Well, why don't we send a "Call for support" to the gcc-announce list?
Seriously.

Gerald
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