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Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:51:49 -0700
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <10107101649.AA12616@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:49:12PM -0400, Richard Kenner wrote:
> I can tell that right now, it is not an easy job to do. It takes more
> resources you can image. Why not let Linux/xxxBSD distribution vendors
> do it for us. The only thing we have to do is to make frequent bug fix
> releases to fix the regressions they have found. But if it takes a few
> months for a bug fix, I don't think any Linux/xxxBSD distribution
> vendors will try the new gcc to build their whole distribution. They
> need a responsive compiler provider.
>
> I don't follow you. They would be doing this *before* a release, on a
> tree that is frozen as part of the release process. We would not make a
> release until they confirm that it works.
I am not sure if they want to put resources in testing every gcc to be
released. As I said, it takes too much resources. They probably will
start from a released gcc if they don't plan to work on gcc themselves.
H.J.