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Re: [RFC] Contributing tree-ssa to mainline
- From: Steven Bosscher <s dot bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl>
- To: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 04:11:47 +0100
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Contributing tree-ssa to mainline
- References: <10401170258.AA15628@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
On Saturday 17 January 2004 03:58, Richard Kenner wrote:
> I would agree with you on principle. But nobody is willing/able to
> update g77, and for Ada, everyone knows Kenner has done some work in
> this area but it's just not there and hasn't been for four years. So
> do you think we should wait until someone cares enough to make this
> transition?
>
> I'm curious where the "four years" come from. GNAT has been around
> for roughly ten years, but work on integrating it with GCC 3 (the only
> version for which function-at-a-time makes sense) was just starting up
> about 2.5 years ago.
The "four years" come from Diego. That much time has past since he
posted his first experimental tree-ssa patch. I have to admit though
that no-one could foresee back then what that patch would lead to...
Gr.
Steven