GCC 3.5 Status (2004-08-29)

[Mark Mitchell]

Richard Kenner wrote:

>    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?
>  
>
I have an answer to that question, but I don't think it's an important 
question right now, and I've said all along that I didn't feel 
passionately about it.

Right now, I'd like to focus on getting the release ready.  We can have 
the marketing debate later, if we must.

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