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Re: GCC 3.4.2 Status (2004-08-23)
- From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:02:39 -0700
- Subject: Re: GCC 3.4.2 Status (2004-08-23)
- References: <412A5945.2060507@codesourcery.com>
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 01:53:25PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
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> This message addresses only the upcoming GCC 3.4.2 release, not the
> GCC 3.5 release. I will have more in that over the next few days, now
> that the final project submissions should be in.
>
> The GCC 3.4.2 release date remains targeted at September 1st. I plan
> to spin pre-release tarballs on Saturday, August 28th, and make the
> final release on the 1st, assuming no catastrophic problems.
>
> There are, however, still 56 (!) wrong-code, rejects-valid, or
> ice-on-valid-code regressions targeted GCC 3.4.2. My plan is to
> basically move most of these back, as people don't seem very concerned
> about them, and very few (none?) are regressions from previous 3.4.x
> releases.
>
> However, I'm disturbed by the lack of attention these bugs are
> getting; many are platform-independent, and many others deal with
> popular features like SSE2 or debugging output, and most seem to occur
> in 3.5 as well.
>
This is the ia64 unwind library bug:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14925
We finally reached the agreement on the soname of unwind library and
a patch is submitted. I'd like to see it get fixed in 3.4.2.
H.J.