next snapshot update

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@cygnus.com> writes:

| I'd like to do a snapshot in approximately two weeks. Here's what I'd like
| to have by then:
| 
| - MT safe string
| - testsuite parity on [x86 powerpc alpha]-linux/cygwin/solaris
| - ctype support in for solaris2.5.1 (irix6.5? aix4.2? palmOS?)
| - --enable-namespaces on by default

I'm all for these.

| This is a deceptively large ammount of work. I don't know what is
| going on with the MT safe string work (Nathan? Phil? Ryszard?) but
| would appreciate an update.
| 
| Gaby, am I missing anything? Is there anything else that should be
| attempted? Is some of the above not a great idea?

In an ideal world we'd trying Martin's patch for the "C-global"
extension, but I'm dreaming :-)).

I'll try to improve the <limits> support unless someone has a patch
floating around.  

We're also missing documentations.  At this point I think it might be
a good idea to start documenting things.


| 
| I've been working on solaris2.7 testsuite parity, meaning, no
| additional fails on solaris2.7 versus the x86/linux baseline. This is
| ongoing.
| 
| It looks like additional configuration hackery is necessary for
| complex<float> to work correctly on alpha. Or, more correctly, not
| work but not kill the compiler. Complex support seems pretty abysmal
| at the moment for targets that are not x86. 

Yep :-( And it seems like no back-end expert is interested in looking
at this stuff.  But it is an issue we have to resolve if v3 is ever to
be integrated in GCC.  I think the sooner, the better.

-- Gaby