GCC 3.3: Branch Frozen

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Fri May 2 21:38:00 GMT 2003


On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 14:10, Kean Johnston wrote:
> > The only other changes that I'm going to consider at this point are
> > fixes for wrong-code regressions, i.e., cases where the compiler
> > silently generates incorrect code.
> I guess that means the raging debate of the last two days will be
> addressed in 3.4 then? I think that may cause a few folks to shy
> away from 3.3. But I have no vested interest. I just volunteered to
> MAKE the patch :) It was someone elses issue to start off with, I
> just happened to agree. But I think it'd be nice to have this const
> warning stuff sorted out for 3.3.

If we wait, then there will just be something else.

This problem is an annoyance -- even a considerable one -- to some
groups of developers, but you can, if pressed, always wrap your compiler
in a script which suppresses the warning.  

I don't think this is a showstopper.

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Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
CodeSourcery, LLC



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