From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21169 invoked by alias); 8 Sep 2004 14:03:25 -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 21162 invoked from network); 8 Sep 2004 14:03:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ltgp.iram.es) (150.214.224.138) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 8 Sep 2004 14:03:24 -0000 Received: from ltgp.iram.es (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ltgp.iram.es (8.12.11/8.12.11/Debian-5) with ESMTP id i88DwgQC006137; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 15:58:42 +0200 Received: (from paubert@localhost) by ltgp.iram.es (8.12.11/8.12.11/Debian-5) id i88Dwgt9006134; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 15:58:42 +0200 From: Gabriel Paubert Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 14:03:00 -0000 To: Mathieu Lacage Cc: gcc Subject: Re: newsletter #10 Message-ID: <20040908135842.GA6111@iram.es> References: <1094646058.14103.1.camel@chronos.inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1094646058.14103.1.camel@chronos.inria.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040818i X-SW-Source: 2004-09/txt/msg00358.txt.bz2 On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 02:20:58PM +0200, Mathieu Lacage wrote: [snipped] > Mark Mitchell sent in a gcc status summary[1] for gcc 3.4.2. He then > declared the 3.4.2 branch frozen[2], released[3] 3.4.2-RC1, then > 3.4.2-RC2 and then 3.4.2[4]. > Mark also sent in a gcc 3.5 status summary[5] which, not surprisingly, [snipped] > patches submitted this week. The first[13] being a fix for do_get_time > in time_get::get_time to handle leap seconds correctly. To stay in > alignment with C99 if _GLIBCXX_USE_C99 is defined the valid values for > seconds are 0 - 60, if using C89 0 - 61. An interesting paper on the > history of leap seconds[14] was also posted. > The second was a fix[15] for PR libstdc++/17215, __basic_fileunderlying > fclose call. This meant the user never new if __basic_fileto soon, if > for instance fclose failed with EINTR. It was decided to mimic the read > and write behavior and loop on EINTR. > > [0] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-08/msg01117.html > [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-08/msg01412.html > [2] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-08/msg01415.html > [3] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-09/msg00348.html > [4] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-08/msg01418.html > [5] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-08/msg01446.html > [6] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-08/msg00900.html > [7] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-08/msg00904.html > [8] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-08/msg01105.html > [9] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-08/msg01050.html > [10] http://www.spindazzle.org/cygnus/design.html > [11] ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/summit/ > [12] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2004-08/msg00215.html > [13] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/time/metrologia-leapsecond.pdf > [14] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2004-08/msg00220.html Very good job, but there is an off by one error: you count the references starting with [1] in the text but with [0] in the list of links. Not very serious but probably easy to correct for the next release. Regards, Gabriel