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Re: RFC: GCC 4.4 criteria - add Fortran as primary language?
- From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Tobias Burnus <burnus at net-b dot de>, GCC <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:42:39 -0800
- Subject: Re: RFC: GCC 4.4 criteria - add Fortran as primary language?
- References: <47BC01AC.2060005@net-b.de> <47BE3380.3060601@codesourcery.com>
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:29:20PM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> I think Fortran is way down the list. That's not about how good of a
> language Fortran is, or how solid the Fortran front-end is; it's just a
> comment about usage of GCC.
>
> That said, I think that the RMs do -- and should -- pay attention to
> Fortran. I just think that the statement that only C and C++
> regressions are release-critical is important.
Just because something isn't release-critical doesn't mean it isn't going
to be fixed. Think of releases as trains. We hold the train departure
only for release-critical bugs, but that doesn't prevent non-release-critical
bug fixes from catching the next train. This works when we know that
there will be an x.y.1 and an x.y.2 at reasonable intervals.