[rfc] mainline slush

[Jeffrey A Law]

On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 11:43 -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:

> Fair enough.  Would you mind reporting back later today, then?  One 
> possibility is to do the changes that fix our primary languages (C, C++, 
> and Java, since it's easy) and deal with Fortran later.  If we can get 
> the mainline bootstrapping and passing regression tests on primary 
> platforms, but leaving Fortran broken, that might be worthwhile.
I went ahead and checked in the non-controversial stuff that affected
our optimizers.  There's still a few more patches to come, at that
point I'll return to the Fortran front-end.  Ultimately I couldn't
justify holding things up further given that I had patches to get
people working again.

Jeff