Hello! > The GCC trunk is still in stage1. Stage1 will last until > Nov 7th (including, use your timezone to your advantage) after > which we will have been in stage1 for nearth 8 months. > In stage3 the trunk will be open for general bugfixing, no > new features will be accepted.
There is a patch that implements usage of vector instructions in memmov/memset expanding [1]. The patch was not reviewed for quite some time, but IIRC, we said that patches that were submitted before Stage 1 closes are still eligible for later stages (after a review of course). I think that this feature certainly improves gcc (also taking into account recent glibc changes in this area), and IMO implements an important feature for recent processors. I would like to motivate middle-end and target maintainers to consider the patch for a review before stage 1 closes, and ultimately ask Release Managers to decide how to proceed with this patch. [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-10/msg02392.html Thanks, Uros.
