Fwd: GCC 4.5 Status Report (2009-12-02)

[Tobias Burnus]

General status, see forwarded message below.

For Fortran: As written before, there are no regressions and the overall
shape is OK, however, several bugs have accumulated and I think we
should try to reduce the severe ones (F95, wrong-code,
ice-on-valid-code, rejects valid) - especially if only non intrusive
patches are needed.
I think before end of January there won't be a release (personal guess
for 4.5 branching: towards end of February). Thus in December one can do
the more riskier not-too-intrusive patches while in January, I think,
only really simple and no-risk patches should be committed (and fixes
for newly found regressions). One can use the time in January/February
to work on 4.6 items. (But in December one should really focus on bug
fixing.)

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: GCC 4.5 Status Report (2009-12-02)
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:32:24 +0100 (CET)
From: Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de>
To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org


Status
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The trunk is in regression and documentation fixes only mode,
Stage 3 has ended yesterday.  Release branch rules are now
in effect for all changes to trunk that touch release critical
parts of the compiler (primary and secondary targets, C and
C++ and their runtimes).

There will be a release candidate made available when there
are no remaining P1 regressions on the trunk.

If you have found a bug that you think should block the release
and that is not marked as P1 regression make sure to mark
it as regression with P3 and CC one of the release managers.
Likewise if you think a bug should not be P1.

In general all regressions toward GCC 4.4 in release critical
parts of the compiler should be P1 at this point if they
are build issues, ICEs or wrong-code issues.

We seem to get more testing of GCC 4.5 in the field now, so
bugs are more frequently reported now.  Please help in
analyzing (and possibly finding duplicates) and fixing bugs.

Quality Data
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Priority	  #	Change from Last Report
--------	---	-----------------------
P1               26     +  7
P2               93     - 15
P3                4     -  3
--------        ---     -----------------------
Total           123     - 11

There are 67 P4 and 74 P5 priority regressions.  71 of all
regressions (including P4 and P5) are new in GCC 4.5.

Previous Report
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http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2009-09/msg00657.html

The next report will be sent by Jakub.