Tobias Burnus wrote:
According to the GCC 4.4 Release Criteria,
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.4/criteria.html, only C and C++ are primary
languages. And thus only C and C++ regressions can be release critical.
I propose to add Fortran to these languages.
Thank you for the suggestion.
My opinion, however, is that C and C++ remain uniquely important.
I think that C is clearly the most important language supported by GCC.
It's the primary language of the GNU project and widely used on
GNU/Linux systems. I suspect that if you summed up all lines of code
compiled with GCC on all computers in the world, C would be the #1
language there.
I'm a C++ fan, of course, so I'm biased as to C++. But, I think it's
pretty clearly the second most used language in GCC, and things like KDE
depend upon it.
I think Fortran is way down the list. That's not about how good of a
language Fortran is, or how solid the Fortran front-end is; it's just a
comment about usage of GCC.
That said, I think that the RMs do -- and should -- pay attention to
Fortran. I just think that the statement that only C and C++
regressions are release-critical is important.
Thanks,
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Mark Mitchell
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