GCC 4.0.1 Status (2005-06-13)

[Mark Mitchell]

Volker Reichelt wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> you wrote
> 
> 
>>Those who have been watching carefully will note that there is no sign of an actual
>>4.0.1 release.
> 
> 
> since the branch has been frozen for quite sime time now, a lot of patches
> for the 4.0 branch have piled up.
> 
> Given the facts that
> a) we'll have another relaese candidate anyway
> b) many of these patches have seen some testing on mainline
>    (and some even on the 3.4 branch)
> c) they fix regressions
>    (some of them are even wrong-code like PR 21850)
> d) the release would already be outdated otherwise
> e) if problems showed up with the patches for users we could address
>    them in 4.0.2 and not just 4.0.3
> 
> wouldn't it make sense to commit the pending patches?
> 
> It would be as if you froze the branch a week later ;-)

The point of a freeze is so that we stop changing things. :-)

However, I'm willing to consider specific patches for wrong-code 
regressions.  In particular, the patch for PR 21850 is OK.

Thanks,

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