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How does the GCC project afford to fix "more than 215 bugs" on an old branch? Do they cherry pick commits from 8 and 9? Do they fix bugs on the 7 branch and the
by vortico 7y ago
How does the GCC project afford to fix "more than 215 bugs" on an old branch? Do they cherry pick commits from 8 and 9? Do they fix bugs on the 7 branch and then cherry pick them into 8 and 9?
- Reason077 7y agoYes. Fixes are made on HEAD and applied/back-ported to the release branches where appropriate.
- rurban 7y agoThe problem is 9, which is mostly unusable. So the main effort is to apply 8 fixes, when they are found, and some of them also affect 7. Until then work on the dev 10 branch is pure sci-fi, until a proper 9.3 will be out, and major distros will be able to switch to it.