[Patch, fortran] PR29786 - [4.1/4.2/4.3 Regression] Initialization of overlapping variables: Not implemented

[Thomas Koenig]

[I sent this to FX privately, by mistake.  FX, sorry if you get this
twice :-]

On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 10:21 +0200, François-Xavier Coudert wrote:

> Now, on a view that has more to do with strategy and
> resources-planning than with actual code quality. I believe it is
> within our reach to make 4.3.0 an extra-good release, and all effort
> spent on the 4.2 branch after the 4.2.0 release, for things that are
> not regressions wrt 4.1.x or 4.0.x, would be better spent elsewhere.

Privately, I've been classifying bugs as "nasty" and "non-nasty".  A
nasty bug is one that silently generates wrong code for a
standard-conforming program.  IMHO, those are worth backporting.

Others (ice-on-valid, ice-on-invalid, rejects-valid or wrong-code where
we generate a bogus error message for valid code) aren't, because the
user is aware of a problem and can either try to work around the bug or
use a newer version.

	Thomas