[fpc-devel] 134 open merge requests - is that normal?

[J. Gareth "Kit" Moreton]

Ah yes, probably.  I might have misunderstood the purpose of the fixes 
branch, or if the RC has been released yet.

Kit

On 04/04/2026 12:40, Florian Klämpfl via fpc-devel wrote:
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>> Am 04.04.2026 um 13:25 schrieb J. Gareth Kit Moreton via fpc-devel <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org>:
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>> On 04/04/2026 11:33, Marco van de Voort via fpc-devel wrote:
>>> IMHO it lacks the major one.:
>>>
>>> - actually making sure the branch contains all must have fixes and revisions it should have.
>>>
>>> P.s. can we open the fixes branch for merging again? A 1 1/2 year freeze makes it a bit stale.
>> Agreed - one of the fixes I made to the register allocator was for a dangling pointer bug that exists as far back as the git history - that's one thing that definitely needs to be merged into the fixes branch: https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/merge_requests/1074
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>> Merging to the fixes branch should be under greater scrutiny than the trunk though since we have to make sure it doesn't make things worse.
> So another rc :)?
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