On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Steven Bosscher wrote: >> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:34:15 +0000, Dave Korn wrote: >>> >>> Say, why don't we reserve GCC 5.0 for the first version that gets rid of >>> reload? Then let's see if we can get there while the X in 4.X is still in >>> single digits! >> >> (see http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2010-03/msg01103.html) >> >> I suppose LRA counts, even if it doesn't get rid of reload completely just >> yet. >> >> Bump the number! :-) > > Also the fact that GCC is now written in C++ seems to me to be > deserving of a bump to 5.0. > > So now we have two reasons!
A third reason would be the much improved diagnostics, which are user-visible changes: caret diagnostics, marco expansion, etc. There's still a lot to do on that front but it's a user visible and quite significant change. But the TIC in $SUBJECT was for "tongue in cheek". Spawning a repeat of the GCC 4.0 discussion wasn't my intention. Ciao! Steven
