GCC 3.4 Release Status (2003-12-16)

[Geoff Keating]

Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:

> There are six open PCH bugs.  That's a new feature -- but it's one
> that people are going to try to use, and, from their point of view,
> problems with PCH that didn't occur without PCH are going to be
> regressions.  Geoff, would you take a look at these problems?
> Alternatively, how would you feel about documenting PCH as
> "experimental" so that people realize that this feature is not as
> solid as we might like?

There are actually 8 PCH bugs.  None of these are serious enough to
warrant delaying a release for.  They are all problems that are
cosmetic, relate to constructs that don't usually appear in headers,
or can be worked around in the build system.

I don't feel that PCH is not as solid as I would like.  It seems to
have relatively few bugs compared to, for example, the C frontend.
Apple has successfully used it to build an entire OS release.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>