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Readiness of tree-ssa
- From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth at ices dot utexas dot edu>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>, rguenth at tat dot physik dot uni-tuebingen dot de
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:48:42 -0600
- Subject: Readiness of tree-ssa
Just as another datapoint: we've got a number of people routinely compiling
and running applications nightly. Off the top of my head, this would be
Gerald, Guenther (POOMA), and me, and I'm certainly missing more. As far as I
can see none of us has had much success with tree-ssa yet.
I, for one, have repeatedly been stuck with ICEs and have never been able to
compile my library completely. Neither have my PRs been fixed overly quickly
(not that I would be entitled to this, it's just a request since I can't test
with a compiler that's continually broken; my latest report is PR 13681). I
can't say anything about speed or correctness of the generated code, of
course.
I understand and appreciate that the tree-ssa people are putting a significant
amount of work into the branch. However, I'd like to propose postponing the
merge until at least the testers inside the gcc project are reasonably happy
with the branch. Whatever they will find, we'll get as reports later anyway,
but this way we could make sure that it's fixed before it propagates to the
mainline.
W.
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