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Re: Will tree-ssa be GCC 3.5?
- From: Phil Edwards <phil at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Jim Wilson <wilson at specifixinc dot com>, Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 19:14:34 -0500
- Subject: Re: Will tree-ssa be GCC 3.5?
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On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 03:48:04PM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Phil Edwards <phil@codesourcery.com> writes:
>
> | Sorry, I just don't see what we gain from calling it 4.x when there's
> | no user-visible change big enough to deserve a bump in the major number.
>
> Calling the huge infrastructure change on tree-ssa branch "no
> user-visible change big enough" is an exageration.
Huh? It's /infrastructure/. Why would users care how the internal guts
are arranged? They don't, and they shouldn't.
--
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Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
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