From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15580 invoked by alias); 17 Jan 2004 19:22:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 15572 invoked from network); 17 Jan 2004 19:22:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Jan 2004 19:22:29 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.30 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ahw1c-0002hW-NS for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 14:22:28 -0500 Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 19:22:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: "gcc@gcc.gnu.org" Subject: Re: [RFC] Contributing tree-ssa to mainline Message-ID: <20040117192228.GA10154@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: "gcc@gcc.gnu.org" References: <1074298740.3147.79.camel@frodo.toronto.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1074298740.3147.79.camel@frodo.toronto.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg01099.txt.bz2 On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 07:19:01PM -0500, Diego Novillo wrote: > > Now that we are about to enter Stage 1 of 3.5, I wanted to solicit > feedback regarding the merge of the tree-ssa branch into mainline. I'd like to offer another perspective, only slightly different. Some people are concerned, rightly, about the bugs that will be caused by merging tree-ssa for 3.5. But I'm concerned about the bugs that will be neglected by not merging it. There are currently nineteen suspended bugs targeted for tree-ssa; in other words, nineteen reported bugs which are fixed on the tree-ssa branch but are believed to be unfixable, or unreasonable to fix, without tree-ssa. Most of them (I didn't check the whole list, just a random sample) were marked as fixed-on-tree-ssa within the last few months. I believe that if we don't merge tree-ssa for 3.5, especially if we expect to merge it at a later date, this number will go up dramatically. It's already a nuisance that a lot of patches are told "this is easier and better to do on tree-ssa", and it's going to get worse as the infrastructure continues to improve. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer