[RFC] Our release cycles are getting longer

[Richard Guenther]

On 1/25/07, Steven Bosscher <stevenb.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/25/07, H. J. Lu <hjl@lucon.org> wrote:
> > > >Gcc 4.2 has a serious FP performace issue:
> > > >
> > > >http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2007-01/msg00408.html
> > > >
> > > >on both ia32 and x86-64. If there will be a 4.2.0 release, I hope it
> > > >will be addressed.
> > >
> > > As always, the best way to ensure that it is addressed if it is
> > > important to you is to address it yourself, or pay someone to do so :-)
> >
> > The fix is in mainline. The question is if it should be backported to
> > 4.2.
>
> ISTR Dan already made it clear more than once that the answer to that
> question is a loud NO.

I thought it was more like "if you really want it I can do it".  And I
think without
it 4.2 sucks.

Richard.