GCC 3.5 Status (2004-08-29)

[Richard Kenner]

    I think that GCC 3.5 is going to be a good release.  I also think that 
    the first release with major new technology (tree-ssa is easily the 
    biggest change to GCC in a decade) is going to have dot-zero properties: 
    it won't work perfectly for all people all of the time.

OK, I'm now totally confused.

If the "biggest change to GCC in a decade" doesn't justify changing the major
version number in your mind, then what would?