Re: Will tree-ssa be GCC 3.5?

[Scott Robert Ladd <coyote at coyotegulch dot com>]

Thank you for a reasonable and useful reply.

Richard Kenner wrote:
> Is tree-ssa going to become mainline, and if so, when under the 
> current circumstances?
>
> Nobody can answer that.
>
> For one thing, tree-ssa is a experiment, a research project.  Lots of
>  work has been done on it, but lots more needs to be done.  At this 
> point, it does some things well and some things not so well.

And this is where the concern lies in funding tree-ssa development. If
my goal is to have a professional-quality "free" Fortran 95 compiler,
should I put my money and time into GCC, another project (Open64), or
develop from scratch?

> There's no reason at this point to doubt that's the case, but it's
> way too early in the project to be able to *prove* it's the case
> either.  So nobody can say with certainty whether it'll be in the
> mainline or not.

Given the uncertainties of tree-ssa's future, anyone with a specific
need is likely to allocate resources toward more definite, if less
ideal, projects.

> Can you explain what tree-ssa has to do with this question?

The new GNU Fortran 95 compiler (gfortran) is deliberately tied to 
tree-ssa; unless I'm mistaken, Fortran 95 support will only exist in 
mainline GCC if tree-ssa becomes mainline.


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