state of 3.2.1-pre: how far from release?

[David Edelsohn]

>>>>> Joe Buck writes:

Joe> bootstrap/8362
Joe> This is PowerPC specific and appears to be a blocker.

Joe> 3.2.1 has a vast number of bug fixes over 3.2.  If we can get 8362
Joe> fixed, I'd say ship the sucker, it is in the best interest of the
Joe> users to get the fixes out there (especially all the fixes to the
Joe> x86 backend).  The other bugs are not that important.

	I can guard the source code in abi_check.cc which elicits the ICE
so that the compiler will bootstrap.  This will not fix the bug.  The
testcase takes a very long time to compile when running the compiler in
the debugger, so it is difficult to debug.  The rest of libstdc++-v3
compiles, so this bug is not extremely common but it is not complicated
either.

	I believe the testcase is uncovering a serious, latent bug in the
common part of the compiler.  GCC has plenty of other "how did that ever
work" bugs, so GCC 3.2.1 could be released with this bug too.

	Without help from GCC experts who understand the reload pass, this
will take a while to debug and fix.

David