what will get backported?

[Brooks Moses]

Janne Blomqvist wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 12:47:19AM -0800, Brooks Moses wrote:
>>Speaking of which, what happened to channel on March 5th?  That was a 
>>pretty sizable jump, and I don't think I've seen any mention of it here....
> 
> See the thread starting at 
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2006-03/msg00039.html
> 
> Incidentally, you posted a couple of messages to the thread above
> yourself. :)
> 
> Roger committed two patches, but the second one was reverted since it
> caused a regression. Apparently the patches were supposed to work
> together, since removing the second patch caused the channel
> regression. Paul Thomas suggested to allow Roger some time to fix the
> second patch, and I agree with that since the approach described in
> the paper referenced by Roger seems quite clever.

Oh, right, that was what that was!  It all makes sense now.  :)

Sorry; it's past midnight here, and I probably should be sleeping rather 
than posting, given what the hour is apparently doing to my memory.

- Brooks