Objective-C bugs and GCC releases

[Mark Mitchell]

Gregory John Casamento wrote:

> If a rewrite is pending anyway, what's the harm in including a temporary fix in
> a front end that the GCC committee doesn't consider to be worth stopping a
> release for?

There's no harm.  And the Objective-C maintainers are fully empowered to 
include such a fix.

> It is my opinion that the policy of allowing ObjC to be broken in releases of
> GCC should stop. 

That's up to the Objective-C maintainers to ensure.  As the RM, I will 
not hold up an otherwise good release because of Objective-C breakage.

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