What to do with new-ra for GCC 4.0

[Paul Brook]

On Sunday 02 January 2005 13:57,  Björn Haase  wrote:
> concerning 'it's not like anyone will miss it' :
>
> For the avr target, new-ra used to be *extremely* useful. There have been
> discussions about the -fnew-ra issue. Unfortunately not on this list but on
> some of the specialized lists for the avr targets, iirc. Maybe we should
> cross post summaries of our discussions also at this list.?

I don't think anyone is disagreeing that gcc needs a new register allocator
The suggestion is that the "new-ra" on mainline is sufficiently broken that 
it's better to rip it out and either start again or fix it on a branch than 
leave it to bitrot and get in the way on mainline.

Paul