The GCC work is near finished. No known issue are left. It just needs some clean up: getting rid of unnecessary changes, simplifying changes, adding comments. Too bad I am traveling tomorrow. Work must continue later this weekend.
The GCC work is near finished. No known issue are left. It just needs some clean up: getting rid of unnecessary changes, simplifying changes, adding comments. Too bad I am traveling tomorrow. Work must continue later this weekend.
Worked a bit on GCC to delay access checking of templates until instantiation time (Bug 16617 and a few others). A few days of business trip got in the way. Now I came back home. So expect more progress until the next trip which is about one week away.
My machine is finally back online after a major Linux upgrade. My winmodem turned out to be unsupported under Linux 2.6 kernel. So no email access for about one week until I bought an external modem just yesterday. No GCC hacking during that period (due to no CVS connection). However, I made some significant progress to GRhino. A simple version of GTP driver is finished so that I can now pit two different GRhino AI's and let them battle for, say, 100 games. This allows AI tinkering without guessing whether it would improve AI strength or not.
GCC
I got notified that my recent patch caused some regression handling pointer-to-member inside template. So a bug fix patch is posted. The code dealing with pointer-to-member in GCC is overly complicate and could benefit from some major code simplification.
GCC
GCC 4.0 branch is created. But my works are more applicable to Stage 2 development. So they can sit around for some time.
Back from travel. One of my GCC patches is approved. Need to read more on Subversion as the GCC project repository will be switched away from CVS.
I am traveling next week. So no new work for about three weeks.
Work on the finishing touches for part 5 and 6 of friend class lookup patches. They are queued for GCC 4.1. No more GCC patch that will get into CVS in this year from me. So I can wrap up work summary for GCC C++ frontend this year:
Major works: Tag lookup rewrite, member class template as friend, fixing remaining template template parameter bugs. Not as many patches as in 2003 but a few much harder problems are attacked.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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