GCC 3.0 Release Criteria

[David Ronis]

Perhaps time for a reality check?  

More than 50% of the recent snapshots fail to bootstrap with
aggressive optimization turned on on ix86's.  Worse, when they build,
the resulting stdc++ library is broken and leads to hundreds of C++
testsuite failures (BTW, this problem is already present in the 2.95.2
release version).  Finally, there are the stack alignment problems
pointed out months ago by Steve Johnson which are performance killers
on i686's (these may have been fixed, but I've not tried his test program
in some time, given the other 2 problems I just mentioned).

If full optimization cannot be used in building the compiler and its
included libraries, then it's simply not ready for release. [IMHO, this
should be added to the release criteria document].

David Ronis