GCC 4.2 Status Report (2006-07-16)

[Mark Mitchell]

At present, we have 160 serious regressions open against mainline (which
will become 4.2).  (I've downgraded many of Volker's reports about ICEs
after valid error messages to P4, following Jason's recommendation.
Upon reflection, I think that's the right thing to do; although robust
error recovery is clearly a good thing, these ICEs don't have a
substantial impact on most users.)

Of the 160 regressions, 33 are P1s.  As usual, a number are C++ issues.
 I intend to go after many of those personally in the near future.
However, there are plenty of non-C++ P1s as well, so don't feel there's
nothing for you non-C++ folks to do.

Our historical standard for branching has been 100 regressions.  I still
think that's a reasonable target.  The fact that we've still got a lot
of issues on the mainline, even though we've been in regressions-only
mode for quite a while, indicates that if we had a release branch we'd
probably be having a very hard time getting 4.2 out -- and we'd be
spending effort on 4.3.

For those that think we're in Stage 3 for too long, please note that if
every frequent GCC contributor fixed three regressions, we'd be under
100.  We could do it tomorrow -- and certainly this week! -- with a
concerted effort.

-- 
Mark Mitchell
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