Re: heads up: GDB 7.7 official release Wed Jan 29th (tomorrow)

[Tobias Burnus <tobias.burnus@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Regarding GCC 4.9:

Joel Brobecker wrote:
> It would be good to get a sense of when people think gcc-4.9 is going
> to come out. Last I looked, the branch hadn't been created yet.
> Perhaps, one option is to schedule 7.8 to coincide with gcc-4.9
> (or slightly before, if we'd like to).

Well, since a couple of years, the GCC branching happens when the
first release candidate is build. The actual release is then one or
two weeks later - depending how many P1 bugs or other issues are
found. Regarding the release time: In the last few years, GCC was
usually released in March, April or May.


In case of GCC 4.8.0: RC1 plus branching March 16, 4.8.0 release
March 21 (announced: March 22). See also
http://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html#timeline

Regarding 4.9: My guess would be that it will take a bit longer
this year due to some larger changes late in the game. Last status
report (1 month ago): http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2013-12/msg00203.html
See also "Serious regressions" for 4.9 on http://gcc.gnu.org/

Tobias