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Re: GCC 4.5 Status Report (2009-09-19)
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Jason Merrill wrote:
> On 09/20/2009 08:07 AM, Dave Korn wrote:
> > Richard Guenther wrote:
> > > On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Dave Korn wrote:
> >
> > > > 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.
> >
> > Ah, thanks. I missed the discussion when stage 2 fell out of use
>
> As did I. I've been figuring that a couple of C++0x bits (lambdas, delegating
> constructors) could go in during stage 2; but if there's no stage 2 I guess
> I'll go ahead and merge the lambda branch during stage 1 rather than try to
> nail down all the corner cases first.
That is what I would indeed prefer. Stage 3 is ok for general bugfixes,
which includes nailing down corner cases.
Thanks,
Richard.