Re: Branch created: gcc-3_3-e500-branch

[Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>]

> X-Original-To: geoffk@foam.wonderslug.com
> From: Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
> Cc: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>, geoffk@geoffk.org,
>    dje@watson.ibm.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com>
> Date: 15 May 2003 08:42:59 -0700
> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 May 2003 15:43:04.0424 (UTC) FILETIME=[AC77A680:01C31AF8]
> 
> On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 07:41, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > Zach,
> > 
> > Thanks for the relpy.
> > 
> > Mark, Geoff, David
> > 
> > What is your feeling of allowing this branch to be merged back into the 
> > 3.3 line?
> 
> I feel that there are two many changes in this branch to permit its
> being merged back into GCC 3.3.1.  The dot-releases are supposed to
> contain fixes for critical defects only.  We have occasionally allowed
> new architectures to be merged in on release branches, but only when
> they were completely separate and therefore could not impact existing
> code.

I'm inclined to agree; the risks of integrating it into the 3.3
release outweigh the relativly small cost of simply keeping it on the
gcc-3_3-e500-branch during the GCC 3.3 life cycle.

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>