RE: Merging tuples branch into mainline today

"Dave Korn" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gcc.java.devel,gmane.comp.gcc.devel,gmane.comp.gcc.fortran
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Diego Novillo wrote on 25 July 2008 17:15:

> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 13:03, Mark Mitchell <[email protected]>
> wrote: 
>> Diego Novillo wrote:
>> 
>>> In terms of regressions versus mainline, the only regressions introduced
>>> by tuples wrt mainline are the matrix-reorg pass that still has not been
>>> converted.
>> 
>> Why not fix that before merging, then?
> 
> Because it is not a pass that is run by default, it is not receiving
> active maintenance and the cost/benefit of doing it pre-merge is lower
> than fixing the pass post-merge.  If that is a problem, we can keep
> delaying the merge until it's fixed, of course.
> 
> I don't know how long will that take, I've got a partial patch that
> does it, but it needs some TLC, so it should be a few days.

  Maybe the pass should be temporarily disabled in the pass manager for the
intervening duration then?  Or the testcases marked XFAIL for that time?

    cheers,
      DaveK
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