> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 9:05 AM > To: Joseph S. Myers > Cc: Fu, Chao-Ying; Richard Henderson; GCC > Subject: Re: Fixed-point branch? > > > Joseph S. Myers wrote: > > > I haven't examined it. When the branch maintainers > consider it ready to > > merge I hope a proposal along the lines of the DFP one > > <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-11/msg01128.html> will be > posted (see also > > subsequent discussion in that thread, and on the submitted patches). > > I would like to avoid the situation in which Chao-Ying et. > al. work hard > to come up with a plan, factor the patches, etc., and then we decide > that the code is not going to be ready for 4.3. I had > originally pushed > this work back to 4.4, but as 4.3's been delayed, perhaps there's an > opportunity for it in 4.3. If, however, the work isn't > ready, then I'd > rather not take up a lot of Chao-Ying's time now; instead, we can just > wait for 4.4 to get closer. > > At the same time, of course, there's not much point in you > investing in > looking at the branch if Chao-Ying doesn't think it's ready. > > So, let's do this: > > 1. Chao-Ying, would you please work on any remaining issues that you > feel need resolution. Then, post your merge plan, ala DFP.
Yes. We will work on remaining issues and post our merge plan. > > 2. Joseph, at that point, would you please invest a a little > bit of time > (a couple of hours) to look at the branch, and provide some feedback? > Please provide comments to Chao-Ying, and also please let me know > whether you think the work is nearly ready for inclusion? Maybe you could first check if new machine modes, new TREE structures (a saturating bit, fixed-point type, fixed-point constant), new RTL structures (fixed-point constant and operators) are ok. Thanks a lot! Regards, Chao-ying