[cfe-dev] [3.7 Release] RC3 has been tagged, let's wrap this up

[Renato Golin via cfe-dev]

AArch64 up. All green.

On 21 August 2015 at 01:51, Hans Wennborg <hans at chromium.org> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> 3.7-rc3 has just been tagged. Testers, please test, build binaries,
> upload to the sftp and report results to this thread.
>
> Again, a lot of patches got merged between rc2 and rc3, but hopefully
> nothing that should upset things.
>
> One thing that did change is that the release script now correctly
> symlinks clang-tools-extra into the build. If this causes problems on
> your platform, please just remove it.
>
> This is a release candidate in the real sense: at this point I have
> zero release blockers on my radar. I will now only accept fixes for
> critical regressions, and if nothing comes up, rc3 will be promoted to
> 3.7.0-final.
>
> Documentation and release note patches are still welcome all the way
> up until the final tag goes in.
>
> Issues that were on my radar, but I don't consider blocking:
>
> - Sanitizer test failures on various platforms, e.g. PR24222. We never
> ran these tests in previous releases, so it's not a regression. It
> would be great if the sanitizer folks could look into the test
> failures, but it's not blocking 3.7.
>
> - PR24273: "[ARM] Libc++abi built in-tree with libunwind fails in
> __cxa_allocate_exception", Renato will exclude libc++ from his build
> for now.
>
> - Lack of key functions in some Instruction classes causing build
> failures without -fno-rtti
> (http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2015-August/089010.html). No
> patches have been forthcoming, so this will not get fixed for 3.7. At
> least we correctly report -fno-rtti in llvm-config built with CMake
> now.
>
> - r244221: "[SPARC] Don't compare arch name as a string, use the enum
> instead", owner is unresponsive.
>
> - "[lldb] r245020 - [MIPS]Handle floating point and aggregate return
> types in SysV-mips [32 bit] ABI", owner is unresponsive.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Hans