GCC 4.8.1 Release Candidate available from gcc.gnu.org

[Jack Howarth]

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 07:11:24PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> GCC 4.8.1 Release Candidate available from gcc.gnu.org
> 
> The first release candidate for GCC 4.8.1 is available from
> 
>  ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/4.8.1-RC-20130517
> 
> and shortly its mirrors.  It has been generated from SVN revision 199021.
> 
> I have so far bootstrapped and tested the release candidate on
> x86_64-linux and i686-linux.  Please test it and report any issues to
> bugzilla.
> 
> If all goes well, I'd like to release 4.8.1 late next week.

   Is there a particular reason that the broken plugin header support in gcc 4.8.0
has been ignored for the 4.8.1 release?

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56754
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-03/msg01369.html

I am hoping this isn't evidence of passive aggression against the compiler plugin support of FSF gcc.
        Jack