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Re: Will tree-ssa be GCC 3.5?
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 01 Dec 2003 02:16:01 +0100
- Subject: Re: Will tree-ssa be GCC 3.5?
- Organization: Integrable Solutions
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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