GCC Release Status (2003-06-20)

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

I'm going to try to get back in the habit of sending weekly mail
summarizing our progress towards releases.

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Mark Mitchell
CodeSourcery, LLC
mark@codesourcery.com

GCC 3.3.1
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GCC 3.3.1 is 28 days away.

There are 122 regressions targeted for GCC 3.3.1.

Of these, 49 are C++ PRs, which clearly makes the C++ front end the
biggest area of focus.

There are also about 20 optimization PRs and 20 target-specific PRs.

I will be triaging the 3.3.1 PRs this weekend, or early next week.
Many of the less-important PRs will be re-targeted for 3.3.2.

Despite the large number of regressions, I think the 3.3.1 release is
in relatively good shape.  Many of the PRs are regressions relate to
warnings, ICEs on invalid code, and other not-too-critical areas.

GCC 3.4
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GCC 3.4 Stage 2 starts in 14 days.

There are 268 PRs targeted for GCC 3.4 at present.  Of course, many of
thse are the same as the 3.3.1 PRs mentioned above.  C++ again
represents the biggest share of the PRs, with 106.  

Some PRs are clearly mislabeled; for example PR 11266 is a tree-ssa
bug, but has 3.4 in its target release.  Since tree-ssa will not be in
3.4, this labeling is in error.  

(I do not know how to create a 3.5 target, but we should have one for
this kind of bug.  Or perhaps a tree-ssa target.  I will pay one
gnudit to whoever adds such a thing!)