State of maturity for gcc 2.95.3 and gcc 2.96

[Bernd Schmidt]

On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Toon Moene wrote:

> Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> > > Since 3.0 is still quite some time away, can 2.95.3 finally be released?
> > > Some very major bugs have been fixed, but commits have been very cautious
> > > to that branch.  I'd almost imagine all that would be needed is to do a
> > > checkout and tar it up.
> 
> > You'd want to fix at least one new bug introduced in reload...
> 
> This would indicate that our process to update the release branch is not
> correct.

No, it indicates that not everything that looks like an obvious bug fix
is necessarily correct.

More specifically, this patch
        * reload1.c (reload_reg_free_for_value_p): Don't use a register
        that is in reload_reg_used.
is incorrect; there's a correct solution for the bug in the current sources.


Bernd