GCC 4.3.0 Status Report (2007-06-29)

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

We have spent the last two weeks in lockdown, hopefully fixing
regressions.

At this point, there are 153 P3 and higher regressions open against GCC
4.3.0.  In reviewing those, I was struck by how many are in fact new
regressions in 4.3 -- problems that did not occur in previous releases.
 These include a number of P1 problems such as:

* Failure to bootstrap on relatively common platforms (e.g., PR32540)

* Failure to correctly compile SPEC benchmarks (e.g., PR32303)

* ICEs on various applications

See the full list here:

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=4.3&target_milestone=4.0.4&target_milestone=4.1.3&target_milestone=4.3.0&known_to_fail_type=allwordssubstr&known_to_work_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&gcchost_type=allwordssubstr&gcchost=&gcctarget_type=allwordssubstr&gcctarget=&gccbuild_type=allwordssubstr&gccbuild=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=SUSPENDED&bug_status=WAITING&bug_status=REOPENED&priority=P1&priority=P2&priority=P3&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=

It's clear that the dataflow and PTR_PLUS changes, while of course
beneficial, have (as we all expected) caused a bit of collateral
fallout.  I think it's very important that we step up to fix these
problems now, while fresh in our minds.

That said, I think it's time to enter Stage 2.  So, effective
immediately, the lockdown is over.  As stated previously, I intend to
reenter the lockdown mode every so often, in order to help us focus on
closing regressions.

Danny, I would still appreciate your help in setting up additional
fields in Bugzilla that we can use to help make people aware of
regresions that they have caused

Previous Report: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2007-06/msg00411.html

Thanks,

-- 
Mark Mitchell
CodeSourcery
mark@codesourcery.com
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