Potentially merging the transactional-memory branch into mainline.

[David Edelsohn]

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:49 AM, Richard Guenther
<richard.guenther@gmail.com> wrote:

> Given that you only recently merged with trunk again are you really
> sure this is a great
> idea at this point in time?  Does the GCC 4.7 user community benefit from this
> in any way (or rather how much percentage of it)?

GCC has a history of merging and exposing technology previews.  Why
should the bar be placed higher for this feature?  The feature is
isolated and does not appear that it will interfere with other parts
of GCC.

Aldy, RTH, Torvald and Red Hat appear ready to address any problems promptly.

- David