Re: GCC 4.8.0 Status Report (2012-10-29), Stage 1 to end soon

[Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Kenneth Zadeck
<zadeck@naturalbridge.com> wrote:
> jakub,
>
> i am hoping to get the rest of my wide integer conversion posted by nov 5.
> I am under some adverse conditions here: hurricane sandy hit her pretty
> badly.  my house is hooked up to a small generator, and no one has any power
> for miles around.
>
> So far richi has promised to review them.   he has sent some comments, but
> so far no reviews.    Some time after i get the first round of them posted,
> i will do a second round that incorporates everyones comments.
>
> But i would like a little slack here if possible.    While this work is a
> show stopper for my private port, the patches address serious problems for
> many of the public ports, especially ones that have very flexible vector
> units.    I believe that there are significant set of latent problems
> currently with the existing ports that use ti mode that these patches will
> fix.
>
> However, i will do everything in my power to get the first round of the
> patches posted by nov 5 deadline.

I suppose you are not going to merge your private port for 4.8 and thus
the wide-int changes are not a show-stopper for you.

That said, I considered the main conversion to be appropriate to be
defered for the next stage1.  There is no advantage in disrupting the
tree more at this stage.

Thanks,
Richard.

> kenny
>
>
> On 10/29/2012 01:56 PM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>>
>> Status
>> ======
>>
>> I'd like to close the stage 1 phase of GCC 4.8 development
>> on Monday, November 5th.  If you have still patches for new features you'd
>> like to see in GCC 4.8, please post them for review soon.  Patches
>> posted before the freeze, but reviewed shortly after the freeze, may
>> still go in, further changes should be just bugfixes and documentation
>> fixes.
>>
>>
>> Quality Data
>> ============
>>
>> Priority          #   Change from Last Report
>> --------        ---   -----------------------
>> P1               23   + 23
>> P2               77   +  8
>> P3               85   + 84
>> --------        ---   -----------------------
>> Total           185   +115
>>
>>
>> Previous Report
>> ===============
>>
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2012-03/msg00011.html
>>
>> The next report will be sent by me again, announcing end of stage 1.
>
>