state of the csl-arm-branch

[Matthias Klose <doko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

taken this address from the version.c file, CCing Zack as I know he's
using sometimes a Debian dist for work.

At Debconf4 just before the GCC summit, we (Debian) tried to evaluate
our upgrade options to newer toolchain components for releases after
sarge.  One issue was gcc-3.4 -> gcc-3.5 ABI stability.  AFAIK it's
planned to remain stable, but maybe not for arm-linux, when/if the
csl-arm-branch is integrated into mainline before the creation of the
gcc-3.5 branch.  Surely we would like to keep the arm ABI stable as
well between these two releases (Debian transitions take a long time),
so questions go in the direction how this can be done.  The
csl-arm-branch currently tracks the gcc-3.4 branch.  Is there an
estimated date for merging the csl-arm-branch?  Is the csl-arm-branch
stable enough to base a system default compiler on it?  gcc-3.4 isn't
yet part of a Debian "release", not yet in unstable, so we would bot
have the pain of a 3.4 -> 3.4-csl transition.

I'm aware that you do this development based on a contract, but your
help/answers would be appreciated, even if you tell you are unable to
reply or if you do not want your answers disclosed to others
(co-maintainers).

Thanks, Matthias