Potentially merging the transactional-memory branch into mainline.

[Diego Novillo]

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 17:19, Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com> wrote:
> 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.

Richard who?  There are two Richards in this thread, and they seem to
have opposing views.


Diego.