GCC 4.5 Status Report (2009-09-19)

Jason Merrill jason@redhat.com
Thu Sep 24 14:44:00 GMT 2009


On 09/20/2009 08:07 AM, Dave Korn wrote:
> Richard Guenther wrote:
>> On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Dave Korn wrote:
>
>>>    BTW, why don't we call this more-flexible-stage-3 "stage 2" any more?  It
>>> sounds a lot like the way that's still described on develop.html.
>>
>> Because "New functionality may not be introduced during this period." is
>> still true for this stage 3 and "support for a new language construct
>> might be added in a front-end" is also not wanted.
>
> Ah, thanks.  I missed the discussion when stage 2 fell out of use

As did I.  I've been figuring that a couple of C++0x bits (lambdas, 
delegating constructors) could go in during stage 2; but if there's no 
stage 2 I guess I'll go ahead and merge the lambda branch during stage 1 
rather than try to nail down all the corner cases first.

Jason



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