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Re: [gfortran] PATCH ping*5 darwin undefined references to _environ
- From: Tobias Schlüter <tobias dot schlueter at physik dot uni-muenchen dot de>
- To: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- Cc: Peter O'Gorman <peter at pogma dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org,gfortran <fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Steven Bosscher <stevenb at suse dot de>
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 03:10:52 +0100
- Subject: Re: [gfortran] PATCH ping*5 darwin undefined references to _environ
- References: <421F3CD2.5090203@pogma.com> <42208DC2.8080200@pogma.com> <30845163.1109533627117.JavaMail.root@dtm1eusosrv72.dtm.ops.eu.uu.net> <422232B0.1090504@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
Toon Moene wrote:
>>And a question, adding your name and email address to the ChangeLog
>>entry is curious as you did not modify the patch at all, did you? The
>>GNU coding standards would seem to indicate that you should not add your
>>name to the ChangeLog in that case. It is possible (likely?) that gcc
>>has different rules for ChangeLog entries and I am simply unaware of
>>them though.
>
> Hmmm, it could well have been covered by the rules to *not* do it.
> However, the reason I added my name was because I wanted to take
> responsibility for this change. If after half a year someone comes
> around and asks on the Fortran list why their code has gone, I can find
> back why I deleted it.
Note that this is also recorded in CVS history. Also, Mr Vaught will most
likely not start communicating suddenly :-/
- Tobi