On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Janis Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 17:04 +0100, Richard Guenther wrote: > > Status > > ====== > > > > The trunk is still in stage 4 which means it is open under the usual > > release branch rules. Thus the trunk is open for regression and > > documentation fixes only. > > What do you think about possibly-disruptive testsuite patches? > In particular, the patch in > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-01/msg01496.html > > fixes an actual bug on Darwin (testsuite/38562) and cleans up > earlier fixes for testsuite/36443. I didn't want to add it to > trunk if the branch was imminent, but otherwise would it be OK, > since not much is happening in stage 4 and there will apparently > be plenty of time to revert it if there are problems?
It is up to the maintainers to decide. testsuite is somewhere on the border of "documentation" for me ;) What makes stage 4 easier than a branch is that you do not risk to leak a regression relative to an earlier dot release into a release. Richard.
