David Malcolm <dmalc...@redhat.com> writes:

> On Thu, 2021-01-14 at 23:23 +0100, Andrea Corallo wrote:
>> Hi Dave and all,
>> 
>> libgccjit is still advertized as alpha state in the documentation
>> despite having being introduced few years ago.
>> 
>> I think we may want to evaluate to promote it as beta with the
>> following
>> motivations:
>> 
>> - The API has been incerementally refined over the years since its
>>   introduction and it looks reasonably complete for fruition now.
>> 
>> - Example as the Emacs native compiler proves it can be used to
>> create
>>   production software.
>> 
>> My main concern (the main issue we are facing) is that the alpha
>> state
>> shows up as a limiting factor for certain distributions to package it
>> [1].  Needless to say this is also a potential limitaiton for other
>> software to adopt it.
>> 
>> WDYT?
>> 
>> Thanks and Regards
>> 
>>   Andrea
>> 
>> [1] <https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/61820>
>
> Thanks for pointing this out.  I've pushed the following patch to master
> for gcc 11, as b95d97f1a5f54f55c15bca65ec79b626b53cd40c:

Super! Thanks!

  Andrea

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