On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Dave Korn wrote: > 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.
Because "New functionality may not be introduced during this period." is still true for this stage 3 and "support for a new language construct might be added in a front-end" is also not wanted. Richard.
