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Re: GCC 4.0 Status Report (2004-01-05)
On Monday 10 January 2005 00:24, Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> Geert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com> wrote:
> >> I think that at least known wrong-code bugs for primary release
> >> platforms should be fixed or documented as such.
> >
> > There is nothing special about known wrong-code bugs versus
> > unknown ones. For a new technology, like gfortran, users
> > will find lots of bugs after the first release. There will
> > be tons of known wrong-code bugs.
>
> This is where our disagreement is. You can rewrite as much as you like of
> GCC, but if there is something which makes the user unable to compile its
> code with the new version, while it works well in the old version, then it
> is a regression. As a user, I don't care if you rewrite everything or just
> keep fixing bugs.
We've already said that gfortran will not be a drop-in replacement for g77,
initially at least. The version shipped with 4.0 will most likely not be a
production-quality compiler. It will have serious bugs, and we probably don't
know about most of them yet.
If the release notes say otherwise, they need changing. Going into much more
detail seems fairly pointless, we can just point people at Bugzilla.
Paul