From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeffrey A Law To: yotam_medini@tmai.com Cc: egcs@cygnus.com, brian_barrick@tmai.com Subject: Re: egcs & gcc 2.8 ?? Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 11:14:00 -0000 Message-id: <14218.881865157@hurl.cygnus.com> References: <199712111819.KAA02784@telaviv.tmai.com> X-SW-Source: 1997-12/msg00670.html In message < 199712111819.KAA02784@telaviv.tmai.com >you write: > Many of egcs users, I believe, assume that a code > compiled with egcs's gcc/g++ could be compiled eventually > with the official gcc-... > Therefore, we would all like to help with early feedback on further > gcc development. That's probably not a safe assumption. We're moving forward at a much faster pace than gcc2. Odds are we've already got some g++ features in egcs that are not in gcc2. > So the questions are really: > > * How gcc's official release is determined. I don't know how to answer that. That's one of the problems with the whole gcc-2.8 process, nobody knows how/when releases will happen. I (and othes) complained more than once about this problem, but nothing ever happened. > * What are the egcs features that will not make it > into the next gcc release. That depends mostly on the gcc2 folks. It's mostly out of our hands. > * What is the expected time length for a bug-fix in some egcs snap-shot > to propogate to the official gcc release. Again, depends on the gcc2 folks. jeff