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charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE,TXREP,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: Hi Jan, Hi Srinath, > In which case - what is the gas/NEWS entry about? Just in case there would > be a 2.42.1, may I ask that it be purged at least there, and perhaps also > from the main branch, until support is actually complete? I would agree with this. > Alternatively, > Nick, once support is complete maybe that's then really a(nother) reason > to cut a 2.42.1? Hmmm... this is a hard decision. Normally I would only consider a point release if we needed to fix an important bug - one which could result in incorrect code generation or total failure of a tool like the linker or assembler. But a release just to add some missing instructions which were supposed to be supported but were actually not ... well that does not seem to me to be a good enough reason. Unless - how significant are these instructions ? I have not actually looked into their semantics. Are there needed in order for a kernel to be able to access specific features of the AArch64 architecture ? Are they essential for atomic operations ? Are they even likely to be produced by a compiler ? Basically if they are not critical to the infrastructure of an operating system, then I do not think that they justify a point release. Cheers Nick