2008/8/28 Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jeff Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Joseph S. Myers wrote: >>> The new Integrated Register Allocator is now in GCC trunk, and the >>> old allocator is scheduled for removal on or shortly after 25 >>> September. >> [ ... ] >> One more note, I would strongly recommend we tag the trunk when we >> remove the old allocator. There's some minor codegen issues that I'd >> like to be able to come back and work on further once we've got the >> ports converted to IRA. Having a tag which allows me to checkout and >> do comparisons of IRA vs the old allocator would make that process >> much easier. > > We use subversion now, which has unique revision numbers. Just check > out revision 139589.
On the other hand, tagging is free [*] and you do not need to remember revision numbers svn cp -r REVISION svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk \ svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/tags/old-allocator-removed-from-trunk \ -m "Tag for the removal of the old allocator" Cheers, Manuel. [*] http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch04s02.html