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Re: patch rereview requested for PRs 6860, 10467 and 11741
- From: "John David Anglin" <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>
- To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu, roger at eyesopen dot com
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 16:12:08 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: patch rereview requested for PRs 6860, 10467 and 11741
> The major thing that reviewers address is software engineering and quality
> issues, not correctness. Reviewers will trust that the patch does what it's
> supposed to do and doesn't break anything. The issues then are whether it's
> the *right thing to do*.
>From my perspective as a backend maintainer, global maintainers need
to compromise from time to time on this position. It's hasn't been
possible to build ada on hppa-linux for months because of this issue.
It's extremely difficult to perform adequate testing under these
conditions. If the timeline for 3.4 is similar to 3.3, it looks
like we will have to ship without ada support.
There have been numerous patches in the 3.4 development stream that
have broken the PA backend. As of yesterday, the boostrap of every
PA port was broken in one way or another. The VAX port is only
buildable without optimization. I do my best but there is only so
much time in a day.
Because GCC is a large project, there needs to be a balanced approach.
Insisting on a significant redesign to fix a bug, often isn't productive
and affects progress in other areas. For example, these problems have
significantly slowed getting libffi and libjava ported to the PA.
Dave
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