I know that we are already in stage 4, but features such as OpenACC 2.0, nvptx and KNL (xeon phi) offloading support are sooooo important for GCC, and if they have to be deferred to GCC 6.0, then it would be a great loss to GCC, as OpenACC 2.0 makes heterogeneous manycore programming so much easier, as it relieves users from doing assembly-like low level stuff as in CUDA and OpenCL.
Currently, OpenACC 2.0, nvptx and KNL (xeon phi) support live in the gomp-4_0-branch From previous discussions in this list, these features are mature enough to be merged into the trunk, and the owner of the trunk is just waiting for the codesourcery to do the job. So in order to include these features into GCC 5.0, is it possible to make an exception so that if these features merges into the trunk within two weeks, they will be allowed to be merged and included into GCC 5.0? Otherwise it would be a big blow to both GCC, and OpenACC, as users would otherwise be forced to use proprietary compilers.
