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Re: [RFC] Contributing tree-ssa to mainline
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 14:22:28 -0500
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Contributing tree-ssa to mainline
- References: <1074298740.3147.79.camel@frodo.toronto.redhat.com>
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 07:19:01PM -0500, Diego Novillo wrote:
>
> Now that we are about to enter Stage 1 of 3.5, I wanted to solicit
> feedback regarding the merge of the tree-ssa branch into mainline.
I'd like to offer another perspective, only slightly different. Some
people are concerned, rightly, about the bugs that will be caused by
merging tree-ssa for 3.5. But I'm concerned about the bugs that will
be neglected by not merging it.
There are currently nineteen suspended bugs targeted for tree-ssa; in
other words, nineteen reported bugs which are fixed on the tree-ssa
branch but are believed to be unfixable, or unreasonable to fix,
without tree-ssa. Most of them (I didn't check the whole list, just a
random sample) were marked as fixed-on-tree-ssa within the last few
months.
I believe that if we don't merge tree-ssa for 3.5, especially if we
expect to merge it at a later date, this number will go up
dramatically. It's already a nuisance that a lot of patches are told
"this is easier and better to do on tree-ssa", and it's going to get
worse as the infrastructure continues to improve.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer