From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26949 invoked by alias); 20 Jan 2004 15:19:42 -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 26942 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2004 15:19:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ams003.ftl.affinity.com) (216.219.253.136) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Jan 2004 15:19:42 -0000 Received: from coyotegulch.com ([4.4.125.218]) by ams.ftl.affinity.com with ESMTP id <2717011-880>; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:17:42 -0500 Message-ID: <400D4696.4090103@coyotegulch.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:19:00 -0000 From: Scott Robert Ladd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gabriel Dos Reis CC: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" , mark@codesourcery.com, Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM, dnovillo@redhat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, law@redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Contributing tree-ssa to mainline References: <1074298740.3147.79.camel@frodo.toronto.redhat.com> <1074366070.3537.36.camel@minax.codesourcery.com> <200401200139.i0K1dsUu019678@caip.rutgers.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg01507.txt.bz2 Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > "Kaveh R. Ghazi" writes: > > | I also agree with Joe that we should consider bumping to version 4.0 > | after we merge tree-ssa: > | http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-01/msg01408.html > | I think it properly communicates the amount of change under the hood > | to users. > > Seconded. Thirded. ;) > Merging tree-ssa into mainline, renaming the whole thing as the next > GCC-4.x.y series and allowing time for other front-ends to adjust > and GCC developers to adjust to the new framework is, I believe, an > action we should seriously consider. > > In the meanwhile, we can continue work on the gcc-3_4-branch to > produce the GCC-3.4.x and (GCC-3.5.x if needed). > If we don't do something like that, I'm afraid people will > "abandon" mainline and focuse on tree-ssa (which would become a de > factor mainline), therefore causing more confusions than would a proper > merge. I was just going to write a message saying the above -- so I definitely concur with Gabriel on this. ;) -- Scott Robert Ladd Coyote Gulch Productions (http://www.coyotegulch.com) Software Invention for High-Performance Computing