[rfc] mainline slush

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Wed, 18 May 2005, Richard Henderson wrote:

> After three days of sequential bootstrap breakage, I'd like to propose
> that mainline go into slush, wherein all these bootstrap problems, and
> all the new testsuites failures get fixed.  No other patches would be
> allowed at all.
> 
> We'd unslush when the primary platforms have clean test results.
> 
> Thoughts?

I'm not confident we know what clean results are for all the primary 
platforms, i.e. that anyone has tracked what failures are regressions and 
what aren't (which requires testing the FAILing tests with older 
compilers, not just presuming that a FAILing test not in a previous 
release isn't a regression).  I know what the mainline testsuite 
regressions are cross-platform (bug 21541), on i686-pc-linux-gnu (bugs 
21630 and 21653) and on hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11 (bug 21654) but not for the 
other platforms.

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