Re: Status of GCC 4.4 (Debian)

["Richard Guenther" <richard.guenther@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> wrote:
> Given that GCC moved to stage 3 recently, I decided to build the Debian
> archive to identify new issues before GCC 4.4 is released.  I compiled
> the entire Debian archive (just under 8000 packages that need to be
> compiled) on x86_64, ia64 and powerpc, and about 1800 packages on arm
> (EABI).  I also wanted to test GCC on alpha, mips and sparc but ran
> into compiler errors during bootstrap.
>
> In total, I filed 28 new bugs and ran into 7 known issues.  64% of the
> bugs I filed have already been fixed and many of those that are still
> open have already received some attention.  I'd like to thank the GCC
> community for such an oustanding job dealing with incoming bug reports
> and fixing compiler regressions.

And I'd like to thank you for doing this enormous amount of work, including
filing high-quality bug-reports!

Thanks,
Richard.