Criteria for GCC 4.0

Andrew Pinski pinskia@physics.uc.edu
Fri Jun 4 17:13:00 GMT 2004


On Jun 4, 2004, at 13:08, Per Abrahamsen wrote:

> Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com> writes:
>
>> I'm not arguing for /never/ having a 4.0 release (although others do 
>> take
>> that position, and it's a reasonable one).
>
> If we never have a 4.0 release, then the major version number is
> redundant, and can be optimized away for space.  The next version will
> then be GCC 5 (short for GCC 3.5).  5.x will be bug-fix only releases,
> and the next release with new features will be 6.

Are we being Sun, here?

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski



More information about the Gcc mailing list