From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25406 invoked by alias); 30 Aug 2004 14:26:15 -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 25360 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2004 14:26:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.10) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 30 Aug 2004 14:26:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 19167 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2004 14:26:13 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.105?) (mitchell@127.0.0.1) by mail.codesourcery.com with SMTP; 30 Aug 2004 14:26:13 -0000 Message-ID: <41333906.7040103@codesourcery.com> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:48:00 -0000 From: Mark Mitchell Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Kenner CC: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: GCC 3.5 Status (2004-08-29) References: <10408301014.AA24024@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> In-Reply-To: <10408301014.AA24024@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-08/txt/msg01487.txt.bz2 Richard Kenner wrote: > I think that GCC 3.5 is going to be a good release. I also think that > the first release with major new technology (tree-ssa is easily the > biggest change to GCC in a decade) is going to have dot-zero properties: > it won't work perfectly for all people all of the time. > >OK, I'm now totally confused. > >If the "biggest change to GCC in a decade" doesn't justify changing the major >version number in your mind, then what would? > > I have an answer to that question, but I don't think it's an important question right now, and I've said all along that I didn't feel passionately about it. Right now, I'd like to focus on getting the release ready. We can have the marketing debate later, if we must. -- Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery, LLC (916) 791-8304 mark@codesourcery.com