[m-dev.] TODO list for 0.12 release

[Peter Hawkins]

Hi...
Peter Ross wrote:

>On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 01:27:56AM +1000, Julien Fischer wrote:
>  
>
>>---------------------------------
>>Failing test cases on 0.12 branch
>>---------------------------------
>>
>>* hard_coded/ppc_bug in reg.gc, PPC/Darwin only.
>>
>>  If we can't resolve this one then the base grade on this
>>  platform should be changed to none.
>>
>>    
>>
>For me the default grade should be hlc.gc in this case, none is much
>slower.
>
>Of course this will not work for the source distribution, but it should
>be in the README how to bootstrap to the hlc.gc grade.
>  
>
I've made this point before, but why isn't the default source grade 
hlc.gc in all cases? It's much more portable across compilers and 
architectures, so I hold the view that it should be the pre-generated 
default in the source distribution for bootstrapping purposes. I built 
the debian packages currently in debian unstable this way.

Incidentally, better gcc 4.0 support probably needs to be on the to-do 
list, since it's now the default compiler on several linux 
distributions. I suspect using hlc.gc may be the best way to achieve 
this since gcc 4.0's optimizer appears to break the asm_fast grades.

=)
Peter
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