GCC 4.2.1 Status Report (2007-05-28)

[Rask Ingemann Lambertsen]

On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 03:48:39PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
 
> Therefore, I plan to make the GCC 4.2.1 release on or about July 13th.
> As with the 4.2.0 release, I will be most concerned about P1 regressions
> in 4.2.x, not present in 4.1.x.  At present, that looks to be:
> 
> * PR 30252 miscompilation of sigc++-2.0 based code with -fstrict-aliasing
> 
> * PR 31360 rtl loop invariant is broken

PR 30052 (GCC 4.2 can't compile xorg-server, memory hog problem) is only
a P2 regression, but I guess is prevents GCC 4.2.x from being used in most
distributions.

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Rask Ingemann Lambertsen