Status
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It's time to start moving GCC 4.4.0 towards a release, with a release
target date in Q4 2008 or Q1 2009. We have had an extraordinarily long
Stage 1 in order to allow development of a variety of important
functionality, including the IRA register allocator, tuples, the
Graphite loop optimization functionality, and many other important
projects. Most of these are either done, or appear to be nearing
conclusion. So, we've got plenty of new functionality, and it's time to
start driving towards a release.
Therefore, Jakub, Joseph, Richard, and I have decided to close Stage 1
as of August 31st, 2008. We will at that point go directly to Stage 3,
during which time only bug fixes will be accepted. That means that all
new features must be submitted prior to August 31st. Any exceptions to
this policy will be made on a case-by-case basis by consensus of the RMs.
If you're a maintainer, please help to review outstanding new-feature
patches before this time, so that we are as feature-complete as possible
by September 1st. Traditionally, Stage 3 has been scheduled for two
months, but, as for past releases, we will probably stay until Stage 3
until we feel that we have reached a sufficiently low bug count to merit
going to the final regression-only stage.
Quality Data
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Priority # Change from Last Report
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P1 13
P2 119
P3 2
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Total 134 So long ago it doesn't matter
This is a reasonably good situation to be in at this point. Of course,
as further testing is performed we are likely to see a variety of issues.
As much of the functionality in 4.4 is aimed at optimization, we need to
be particularly sensitive to performance issues. If our benchmark
numbers aren't improved relative to the previous release, or if we've
increased code size when compiling with -Os, then we've got a problem.
Some of those issues will probably be difficult to fix.
Previous Report
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http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2008-04/msg00539.html
Next Report
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The next report for 4.4.0 will be sent by Richard.
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Mark Mitchell
CodeSourcery
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