Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 15:17:42 -0700 From: Jim Wilson <wilson@cygnus.com> To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: "P. van Leeuwen" <pvl@nanoteq.com>, "'law@cygnus.com'" <law@cygnus.com>, Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>, "pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at" <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>, "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, "egcs@cygnus.com" <egcs@cygnus.com> Subject: Re: GCC Message-ID: <199805062217.PAA04453@rtl.cygnus.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 May 1998 01:00:09 PDT." <19980506010009.51285@nuxi.com>
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This has been fixed in the development branch since late March, but for some reason wasn't brought into the "release" branch. FYI `release branch' probably means something completely different to the FreeBSD folks than the EGCS folks. This is perhaps why you are confused. FreeBSD has a release branch and a development branch, and work progresses on them in parallel. EGCS has only a single source tree, the development tree, and releases are branches from the development tree. There was a branch for the egcs-1.0.x release, and there will be another branch for the egcs-1.1.x release soon. There is no such thing as "the release branch" such as FreeBSD has, so there is no point in asking us to add patches to it. However, since the FreeBSD patches are in our development tree, they will automatically be in the next release branch, for the egcs-1.1.x releases. The patches aren't in the egcs-1.0.x release branch because that was frozen months ago, and the patches came too late for that. It appears 1.0.3 is a Linux-only release as it only address problems Linux users had. It addresses problems from one specific Linux distributor, which needed to be fixed before egcs could be the primary compiler for their next CD-ROM distribution. However, considering that several of the changes are bug fixes in the x86 port, it would likely be just as useful to FreeBSD users also. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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