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Re: Will tree-ssa be GCC 3.5?


Phil Edwards <phil@codesourcery.com> writes:

| 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? 

Because, there are users who base their tools on GCC codes.  
You have to admit that "users" can be another category of developers.

"GCC users" is a term that covers quite a large spectrum of people.

| They don't, and they shouldn't.

Please, get real.

-- Gaby


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