GCC 4.0.1 Status (2005-06-05)

[Mark Mitchell]

As of midnight, tonight, California time, the GCC 4.0 branch will be 
frozen, in preparation for the 4.0.1 release.  After that point, all 
non-documentation changes will require my explicit approval.  To request 
approval for a patch, please attach the patch or a pointer thereto to a 
PR, and add me to the CC list for the PR.

I expect to build 4.0.1 RC1 tomorrow.

The reason that this release is slightly ahead of schedule is because of 
a relatively frequently-encountered wrong-code regression in C++.  In 
the hopes of having to similarly accelerate 4.0.2, please let me know 
ASAP if there are other problems that are considered equally severe.

With some disappointment, I note 34 critical PRs open against 4.0.1; 
these are all either wrong-code, rejects-valid, or ICE-on-valid 
regressions.  Most also apply to 4.1; fixing these would make both 
branches better.

Here are three bugs I'd really like to see fixed.

* 21528: SRA and/or aliasing problem.

* 21847: DCE over-eagerness.

* 20928: IA32 ICE.

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