GCC 4.7.0 Status Report (2011-09-09)

[Torvald Riegel]

On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 08:51 -0500, Aldy Hernandez wrote:
> Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > In particular, is transactional-memory branch mergeable within
> > a month and half, at least some parts of cxx-mem-model branch,
> > bitfield lowering?  What is the status of lra, reload-2a, pph,
> 
> Torvald and I are looking into getting things merge read, but...
> 
> The main problem seems to be that the TM community still hasn't formally
> submitted the C++ changes to the standards committee, and are still
> swinging between two alternate syntax implementations.  So unless, this
> gets resolved in the next month, transactional memory will have to sit
> this one out.
> 
> Torvald, is this a fair assessment?

The group working on the C++ TM specification has made progress, and I
think we now have something that is basically okay for most people that
are involved.
Thus, I think that it would be good to include TM.

Torvald