From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Buck To: egcs@cygnus.com Cc: yotam_medini@tmai.com, brian_barrick@tmai.com Subject: Re: egcs & gcc 2.8 ?? Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 16:11:00 -0000 Message-id: <199712112351.PAA23325@atrus.synopsys.com> References: <14218.881865157@hurl.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1997-12/msg00677.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. No, I think it is a safe assumption (that C++ code that compiles with egcs g++ will compile eventually with gcc2) -- the intent is that the C++ front end be installed in both egcs and gcc2, as I understand things. At any given point in time, egcs may be slightly ahead. *Warning*: this assumes that you attempt to write standard C++, not just whatever the compiler will accept; in the past, g++ has accepted invalid input due to bugs and folks complain when the next release fixes the bug and rejects the invalid input. > > 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. Richard Kenner decides -- it seems he now wants to get a release out ASAP, but there are still a couple of serious bugs. (and thanks to the recent merge these bugs are now in the latest egcs snapshot). > > * 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. haifa and -frepo, to name two. Otherwise they aren't going to be all that different, I think. > > * 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. I suspect that many egcs-generated bug-fixes will appear relatively quickly in the gcc2 *snapshots*. How long it will take before a release occurs is another matter.