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Re: 2 x86-64 ABI bugs in gcc 3.3 and 3.4
In article <Pine.BSF.4.58.0405221108470.79506@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> you write:
>From my personal experience, I feel that this should be the general policy
>when backporting fixes: Bugs on the 3.3 and 3.4 branches should either be
>fixed on both, or only on 3.4.
Yeah, I agree completely, and I do feel rather strongly about that:
we should strive to have the set of gcc releases have monotonic
improvements over release numbers. It's already a problem having to
make hard choices over supported architectures, speed and whatnot.
If bug-fixes becomes an issue, then it becomes even harder.
(sorry if that sounds obvious).