Richard Guenther wrote: > Note that Stage 3 isn't that strict as it may sound. Maintainers have > quite amount of flexibility deciding what is considered a bug and thus > a bugfix during Stage 3 (note that Stage3 is _not_ only for regression > fixes). This includes obviously Graphite and LTO as well as target > specific changes. > > What you won't see in Stage 3 is rewrites of infrastructure or adding of > new optimization passes.
Thanks Richard, that's pretty reassuring. BTW, why don't we call this more-flexible-stage-3 "stage 2" any more? It sounds a lot like the way that's still described on develop.html. cheers, DaveK