Potentially merging the transactional-memory branch into mainline.

[Robert Dewar]

On 11/1/2011 12:59 PM, David Edelsohn wrote:
> 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.

I think this is an important feature, and support Richard's viewpoint on 
this.