[PATCH] thread-safe libgfortran (follow-up)

[Steven Bosscher]

On Friday 07 October 2005 15:17, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> I haven't created a ChangeLog yet, since it will take a long time
> to write it given the number of changes :(.  Anyway, I wonder about
> the future of the patch, because of its size it will be a nightmare to
> maintain it in the long term.  I'd certainly appreciate a thorough
> review and if people could test it on something other than just
> check-gfortran testsuite.  If it could make it into 4.1, it would
> save me a lot of work, but I would very well understand if it can't
> - it is an ABI breaker and just too huge for this late stage.
> Depends if we want an ABI break between 4.0 and 4.1 or between
> 4.1 and 4.2.  The other alternative is after approval (if any)
> commit it to the gomp branch and merge as one of the first things
> into 4.2 once 4.1 branches, but in that case I'd appreciate help
> from those making bigger changes to libgfortran in the mean time
> to also adapt their patches on gomp.
> Comments?

I'd rather break the ABI for 4.1 and have it not broken between
4.1 and 4.2, simply because in 4.0 gfortran was more or less just
an experimental front end anyway so users are more likely to 
understand why things would break between 4.0 and 4.1.

But the patch is IMVHO way too large for GCC 4.1 at such a very
late stage like where we are now :-/

Gr.
Steven