GCC 7 stage 3 is coming ...

[Jerry DeLisle]

On 10/22/2016 09:53 AM, Paul Richard Thomas wrote:
> Dear Steve,
>
> Unfortunately, there is so much to do on fortran-dev that I have been
> targeting the start of 8.0.0. It has only been merged up to trunk of
> about a month ago and even then there are some regressions. In
> addition, there are some performance issues that need to be sorted
> out. I have a couple of other pbig patches that I am working on. After
> this, I will get back to bug fixing on trunk and fortran-dev.
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
>
> On 22 October 2016 at 17:58, Steve Kargl
> <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
>> For those that may have missed Jakub's post:
>>
>> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2016-10/msg00176.html
>>
>> Status
>> ======
>>
>> Trunk which will eventually become GCC 7 is still in Stage 1 but its
>> end is near and we are planning to transition into Stage 3 starting
>> Nov 13th end of day time zone of your choice.
>>
>> This means it is time to get things you want to have in GCC 7 finalized
>> and reviewed.  As usual there may be exceptions to late reviewed features
>> but don't count on that.  Likewise target specific features can sneak in
>> during Stage 3 if maintainers ok them.
>>
>>
>> So, Paul, Tobias, is it time to merge fortran-dev?  Jerry has or
>> plans to bump libgfortran's version number.  Stage 3 can be used
>> to stabilizing the tree.

I am afraid I gave a bad impression on what remains. Merging source files is not 
so bad, dealing with the performance issues is.

Jerry