On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 11:18:34AM +0100, François-Xavier Coudert wrote: > [sorry for breaking the thread; stupid gmail doesn't want to add > custom References headers] > > >It may be that not too many people pick up 4.2.0. But, if 4.3 isn't > >looking very stable, there will be a point when people decide that 4.2.0 > >is looking very attractive. The worst outcome of trying to do a 4.2.0 > >release is that we'll fix some things that are also bugs in 4.3; most > >4.2 bugs are also in 4.3. > > >From the Fortran point of view, and however limited it might be, > skipping the 4.2.0 release would be very unfortunate. We've been > working hard on it, and especially in recent time, many bug fixes have > been deemed to risky to backport to the 4.1 branch. 4.3 is still a > long way down the road, and the 4.2 branch has interesting features > even from the non-Fortran point of view. >
Gcc 4.2 has a serious FP performace issue: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2007-01/msg00408.html on both ia32 and x86-64. If there will be a 4.2.0 release, I hope it will be addressed. H.J.
