Re: GCC 4.3.1 Status Report (2008-05-19)

Re: GCC 4.3.1 Status Report (2008-05-19)

[Uros Bizjak]

Hello!

> GCC 4.3.1 is still not ready for release as the x86 direction flag
> issue (36079) needs to be resolved.  We have reached consensus to
> add a new flag -mcld to allow to work around the kernel bug and to
> add a configure option to enable/disable this by default.
>
> The patch from Uros is implementing the -mcld parts but lacks the
> configure option part for which no patch exists yet.
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-03/msg00417.html
>
> The plan is to create a release candidate for 4.3.1 once the direction
> flag issue is resolved and 4.2.4 was released.  I will announce a
> freeze of the 4.3 branch once the release process starts.
>   

IIRC, the final word was that the impact of this issue is not high 
enough to warrant adding a separate flag [1] ?

[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36079

Uros.

Re: GCC 4.3.1 Status Report (2008-05-19)

[Richard Guenther]

On Mon, 19 May 2008, Uros Bizjak wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> > GCC 4.3.1 is still not ready for release as the x86 direction flag
> > issue (36079) needs to be resolved.  We have reached consensus to
> > add a new flag -mcld to allow to work around the kernel bug and to
> > add a configure option to enable/disable this by default.
> >
> > The patch from Uros is implementing the -mcld parts but lacks the
> > configure option part for which no patch exists yet.
> >
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-03/msg00417.html
> >
> > The plan is to create a release candidate for 4.3.1 once the direction
> > flag issue is resolved and 4.2.4 was released.  I will announce a
> > freeze of the 4.3 branch once the release process starts.
> >   
> 
> IIRC, the final word was that the impact of this issue is not high enough to
> warrant adding a separate flag [1] ?
> 
> [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36079

It turns out to be more a political and marketing issue than a technical
issue, so it was decided that we should provide -mcld and a configure
option.

Richard.

GCC 4.3.1 Status Report (2008-05-19)

[Richard Guenther]

Status
======

The GCC 4.3 branch is open for commits under normal release branch
rules.

GCC 4.3.1 is still not ready for release as the x86 direction flag
issue (36079) needs to be resolved.  We have reached consensus to
add a new flag -mcld to allow to work around the kernel bug and to
add a configure option to enable/disable this by default.

The patch from Uros is implementing the -mcld parts but lacks the
configure option part for which no patch exists yet.

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-03/msg00417.html

The plan is to create a release candidate for 4.3.1 once the direction
flag issue is resolved and 4.2.4 was released.  I will announce a
freeze of the 4.3 branch once the release process starts.


Quality Data
============

Priority          #     Change from Last Report
--------        ---     -----------------------
P1                1     -  2
P2              100     +  3
P3                3     -  1
--------        ---     -----------------------
Total           104     +- 0

Previous Report
===============

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2008-05/msg00059.html

The next report for the 4.3 branch will be sent by me again.


Richard.