From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Buck To: wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de (Wolfram Gloger) Cc: egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: bug with asm statment in egcs-1.0.2 Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 10:41:00 -0000 Message-id: <199804231701.KAA12594@atrus.synopsys.com> References: <19980423094919.26728.qmail@md.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de> X-SW-Source: 1998-04/msg00946.html > > No. As I mentioned before. 1.0.3 is to fix problems for RedHat > > and that's it. 1.0.3 is already frozen unless RedHat runs into > > some kind problem in their final builds. > Sorry, but this sounds a bit worrysome. There's _much_ more to egcs > usage than RedHat system builds. If someone were to report a critical > bug (possibly with a 3-line patch) in 1.0.x now (with 1.1 unreleased, > and its release date understandably uncertain) causing, say, the Linux > kernel or glibc to be miscompiled, would you even consider be make an > egcs-1.0.x+1 release to fix it ? If there is a bug that affects the compilation of the Linux kernel or of glibc, it would affect Red Hat and would therefore be high priority. But the reason for 1.0.3 is to *quickly* get out a release that is good enough to build Linux/Alpha. We can't fix every bug in the universe. > If the answer is no, I would certainly not be in a position to > criticise that decision, however you should then clearly state that > bug reports for 1.0.x are useless (to me, this seems to be especially > true for C++ bugs). The bug reports are still useful, of course; it's just that some fixes will have to wait until 1.1. This is not gcc-2.8.0 we're building here; you won't have to wait two years for 1.1. > Your valuable time is scarce and building new 1.0 releases takes time. > However, creating meaningful bug reports also takes lots of time. It > would be a shame if all that time would be wasted; it also starts to > remind me of the long time when the point in gcc-2.7 bug reports was > rather questionable. Sigh. You're acting like 1.0.x is all you'll have in your lifetime. The egcs team isn't going to make you wait 2.5 years for the next major release.