Should there be a GCC 4.0.1 release quickly?

Joe Buck Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM
Thu Apr 28 18:02:00 GMT 2005


On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 07:31:32PM +0200, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> Yeah, but in this case the patch that introduced the bug was one of
> the last to go in before the release (it was the fix for PRs 20490
> and 20929, the patch for that went in on April 17).  So it was more
> an unfortunate fix than a typical .0 bug.

Again, that's not surprising.  There's always a risk that a patch can
create a new bug, and the regression test suite only proves we haven't
re-broken old bugs.  Late fixes are particularly risky, because of the
limited testing they get.



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