GCC 4.1 Status Report (2005-09-06)

[Mark Mitchell]

Since August 21st, when I sent my last status report, we've reduce the 
number of bugs targeted at 4.1 from 271 to 250; about a bug a day.  77 
of these bugs are wrong-code, ice-on-valid-code, or rejects-valid, down 
from 91.  So, that suggests that the net progress is mostly coming from 
fixing the critical bugs, which is good.  24 open bugs are of the 
most-nasty wrong-code category.

So, my tentative conclusion is that the number of really nasty bugs 
isn't very bad, but that there's a lot of overall bugginess streaming 
in, probably just due to the large volume of changes.

I still think we need to drive the numbers lower before we branch.  I 
know everyone's eager to start on 4.2, but I bet we can fix a lot of 
these bugs with relatively small amounts of effort, if we focus on those 
problems.

-- 
Mark Mitchell
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