GCC releases [was Re: ia64 libjava java-signal.h build failure]

Tue Apr 24 11:27:00 GMT 2001

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:

 Tom> I'd like to see that too. Java seems to change more quickly
 Tom> than the other parts of gcc, probably because it is younger
 Tom> and less complete. Even one release a year would probably be
Right. Another reason to do releases more often is that it will
encourage us to keep the mainline more stable.
 Tom> too few for Java. OTOH maybe Java could do more frequent
 Tom> runtime releases without a full gcc release.
In the medium term, I'd like to see us decouple the front-ends from
the optimizers and code-generators. Then, we could do releases
independently of one-another. But, that may just be a pipe dream for
a while longer.
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