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Re: Should there be a GCC 4.0.1 release quickly?
On Apr 28, 2005 06:55 PM, Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 06:45:10PM +0200, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > PR21173 and its duplicates are a class of wrong-code and ICE bugs
> > in GCC 4.0.0.
> >
> > In Bugzilla, PR21173 now has 3 duplicates, and there was another
> > example on this mailing list. That makes 5 users who have already
> > run into this rather serious bug. That is a lot, for a compiler
> > that has only just been released...
>
> I'm not surprised to see a problem in anything with two 0's. It's
> the first release ever with tree-ssa. It was inevitable that users
> would find problems,
Yeah, but in this case the patch that introduced the bug was one of
the last to go in before the release (it was the fix for PRs 20490
and 20929, the patch for that went in on April 17). So it was more
an unfortunate fix than a typical .0 bug.
I hope users don't find too many problems ;-)
Gr.
Steven