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Re: gcc-2.95 and SGI STL 3.2
- To: jason at cygnus dot com, mark at codesourcery dot com
- Subject: Re: gcc-2.95 and SGI STL 3.2
- From: mrs at wrs dot com (Mike Stump)
- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:29:08 -0700
- Cc: Gabriel dot Dos_Reis at sophia dot inria dot fr, drepper at cygnus dot com, egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com, kabatek at chemie dot uni-halle dot de, law at cygnus dot com, martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de
> From: Jason Merrill <jason@cygnus.com>
> Date: 20 Jun 1999 21:55:14 -0700
> I don't feel strongly about integrating 3.2 now; I think it's a
> mistake that we didn't do it before. I had been waiting for Ulrich
> to take the initiative. I would be opposed to doing it in a dot
> release, as it would break binary compatibility.
I'm in general agreement. I think it is just too late now (all big
things and even quite a few small things tend to shoot release quality
in the foot if incorporated just before before release). Would have
been nice if it had been in the tree for the past few months, oh well.