[Bug target/96854] [10 Regression] avx vectorizer breaks complex arithmetic

[rguenther at suse dot de]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=96854

--- Comment #17 from rguenther at suse dot de <rguenther at suse dot de> ---
On Sun, 6 Sep 2020, already5chosen at yahoo dot com wrote:

> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=96854
> 
> --- Comment #15 from Michael_S <already5chosen at yahoo dot com> ---
> Thank you.
> That does not sound too different from what I assumed in post above.
> 10.1.0 is release. Expected to be used by "normal" people.
> 10.1.1 was for purpose of development of 10.2.0. Since release of 10.2.0 it is
> obsolete.
> 10.2.0 is release. Expected to be used by "normal" people.
> 10.2.1 exists for purpose of development of 10.3.0.
> 
> >> Generally, it is advisable to use snapshots from the release branches, as otherwise one misses dozens to hundreds of bugfixes that were fixed since the last release.
> 
> That a little confusing.
> I am compiler user, not compiler developer. Is it advisable for me to download
> and compile snapshots ?!

If you can wait then no, 10.x.0 are the "releases".  If you are using
pre-built binaries from some Linux distribution or other distributor
then the distributor usually picks up the current branch head for you.

> I would think that for people like me 3-4 month cadence of gcc releases is
> already too quick.

Well, all of GCC 10.x.[01] are one major release with a major release
cadence of about one year.  Everything else inbetween is just accumulated
bugfixes with the "conveniece" of us doing 10.2.0 and later 10.3.0 at
random points to officially release a tarball with accumulated bugfixes.

You could say we should make it GCC 10.bugfix-nr and thus only have
two numbers ;)