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Re: GCC 4.0.2 Released
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:06:07AM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> The key question is whether to do an immediate 4.0.3 to catch up to what
> we intended. (That's not entirely trivial, in that things have now been
> checked in on the 4.0 branch, so we would have to temporarily back out
> some patches, or apply tags very carefully.) Or, we could do a 4.0.3
> based on current bits.
>
> My inclination is to do nothing (other than correct the target
> milestones on these bugs in bugzilla) and move on. The Solaris problem
> is bad, and I beat up on Benjamin to get it fixed, but I'm not sure it's
> a crisis meriting another release cycle. The C++ change fixed a
> regression relative to 3.4.x, but not 4.0.x. Andreas' change is only
> known to affect m68k.
... but IIRC it cripples GCC for m68k; Debian turned up hundreds of
build failures because of this bug and it set builds back several
weeks.
Personally, I'd do a 4.0.3 based on current bits.
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