Re: GCC 3.5 Status (2004-08-29)

[Laurent GUERBY <laurent at guerby dot net>]

On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 11:06, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 01:02:34PM +0200, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> > We had a barely working Ada compiler in 3.3 (fortunately enough for
> > bootstraping 3.4 and 3.5 on x86 and x86_64), a fully working compiler on
> > 3.4 (100% pass on x86 at -O0) and it looks like 3.5 will have 100% pass
> > on x86 and x86_64 at -O2.
>
> Well, fully working on x86, not working in 3.4 on 64-bit architectures
> and not working on ppc32 (while it worked in 3.3 on all of them).

3.3 did not have ACATS so working = bootstrap, which doesn't
mean much for end user (I know of no one successfully using Ada with FSF
3.3 except for bootstraping 3.4).

3.4 on x86_64 (so 64 bits) is not that broken, 6 fail on 2316 tests.

(Also I believe s390 and s390x results were quite good before tree-ssa)

But back to the point, is not having *all* architectures perfectly
working for a language a reason to allow breaking of previously working
architectures? 

Is the requirement for not release GCC with broken Ada on x86 and x86_64
too strong?

Laurent