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Re: Will tree-ssa be GCC 3.5?


On Dec 1, 2003, at 8:52 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

Scott Robert Ladd <coyote@coyotegulch.com> writes:

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
It's correct that ``the gcc developers'' and National Labs will never
meet.  That's because ``the gcc developers'' have no way to even
accept funding, much less propose a schedule.

Granted. The discussion has wandered far fom my original intent, which was merely to find out if tree-ssa was going to become mainline. I did not raise the issues of funding or contracts.

I think it's the wrong question, though. (I'll note that you also asked about scheduling, though perhaps that came up later.)

The right question for your purposes is whether there will be a
quality Fortran 95 release as part of gcc.  The fact that Fortran 95
currently depends upon tree-ssa doesn't consider whether there will be
a Fortran 95 release if the tree-ssa branch is abandoned.

Nor is the other direction guaranteed, for that matter. It's entirely possible (even likely, in my opinion) that we'll see an SSA-based middle end before we see a Fortran 95 front end.

--Matt


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