Re: [wwwdocs] Initial criteria.html (was Re: Where's the currentlist of release criteria?)

[Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> If one of you wants to make the changes above, these are pre-approved;
> else I'll try to do it tomorrow from work.

Done. Installed.

(Obviously, I cannot and do not want to interfere with Mark's work as
release manager; rather, I'm trying to help by resolving obvious issues.)

Gerald

Index: criteria.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-3.1/criteria.html,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -3 -p -r1.1 criteria.html
--- criteria.html	2001/10/30 17:41:01	1.1
+++ criteria.html	2001/10/31 16:24:57
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ possible.</p>
 relative to previous releases of GCC.  Each of these improvements must
 be completed before GCC 3.1 is released:
 <ul>
+<li><p>Open Bugs</p>
+    <p>High-priority open bugs in GNATS will be fixed before the
+       GCC 3.1 release.</p>
 <li><p>C preprocessor</p>
     <p></p>
 <li><p>C++ ABI</p>
@@ -49,15 +52,6 @@ be completed before GCC 3.1 is released:
     <p></p>
 <li><p>Java Standard Library</p>
     <p></p>
-<li><p>GCC Support Library</p>
-    <p></p>
-<li><p>Java Front-End Garbage Collection</p>
-    <p></p>
-<li><p>Open Bugs</p>
-    <p>High-priority open bugs in GNATS will be fixed before the
-       GCC 3.1 release.</p>
-<li><p>Installation Documentation</p>
-    <p></p>
 </ul>

 <h2>Platform Support</h2>
@@ -136,7 +130,7 @@ behavior will not be a primary considera
 not to ship a particular release candidate:</p>

 <ul>
-<li>Chill (<strong>Dropped</strong>; see above)
+<li>Ada
 <li>Java
 <li>Objective-C
 </ul>
@@ -144,8 +138,7 @@ not to ship a particular release candida
 <p>In particular, no application testing, code quality, or compile-time
 performance testing will be required for these languages.  However,
 the regression testing criteria documented below will apply to these
-languages, except Chill, for which no regression tests are
-available.</p>
+languages.</p>

 <h2>Regression Tests</h2>

@@ -153,8 +146,9 @@ available.</p>
 well as some Fortran, and Objective-C tests.  GCC 3.1 will not fail
 any of these tests which the previous release GCC passed on any of the
 supported platforms.  In particular, the current regression testsuite
-will be run using GCC 2.95.2 on each of the supported platforms; those
-results can then be compared with the output from a release candidate.
+will be run using GCC 3.0.2 and GCC 2.95.3 on each of the supported
+platforms; those results can then be compared with the output from a
+release candidate.
 Because there have often been issues with generating PIC code, we will
 test with <code>-fPIC</code> as well.</p>

@@ -347,13 +341,11 @@ both GCC 2.95.2 and GCC 3.1.</p>
 <li>What other tests should we use for compile-time performance
 measurement?
 <li>What tests should we use for code quality?
-<li>Should <code>-fstrict-aliasing</code> be enabled?
 <li>Should we use flags higher than <code>-O2 -g</code> when
 bootstrapping?  (Probably we should have a matrix of various flags, as
 in previous releases.)
 <li>Should we add PowerPC GNU/Linux to the list of platforms?
 <li>Should we use Tru64 in place of Alpha GNU/Linux?
-<li>Should we eliminate setjmp/longjmp exception-handling?
 <li>Which open bugs need to be fixed?
 </ul>