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Re: GCC 4.5 Status Report (2009-09-19)
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Dave Korn wrote:
> Richard Guenther wrote:
>
> > Note that Stage 3 isn't that strict as it may sound. Maintainers have
> > quite amount of flexibility deciding what is considered a bug and thus
> > a bugfix during Stage 3 (note that Stage3 is _not_ only for regression
> > fixes). This includes obviously Graphite and LTO as well as target
> > specific changes.
> >
> > What you won't see in Stage 3 is rewrites of infrastructure or adding of
> > new optimization passes.
>
> Thanks Richard, that's pretty reassuring.
>
> BTW, why don't we call this more-flexible-stage-3 "stage 2" any more? It
> sounds a lot like the way that's still described on develop.html.
Because "New functionality may not be introduced during this period." is
still true for this stage 3 and "support for a new language construct
might be added in a front-end" is also not wanted.
Richard.