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Re: RFC: remove find_replacement. (pr24912 / pr25335)
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>, Joern RENNECKE <joern dot rennecke at st dot com>, Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1 at t-online dot de>, kenner at nyu dot edu, GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 23:26:57 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: RFC: remove find_replacement. (pr24912 / pr25335)
- References: <200602011900.k11J0puO006959@earth.phy.uc.edu> <200602011935.k11JZ8D26194@makai.watson.ibm.com>
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, David Edelsohn wrote:
>> I should mention this is a regression unlike the long-double-128/glibc.
>> Why should a non regression have a priority over a patch which should
>> have been sought after sooner?
> Because long-doiuble-128 affects a primary platform and the
> regression does not.
I agree that regressions on primary platforms should receive higher
priority than regressions on secondary or tertiary platforms.
However, feature requests for primary platforms that come too late
are, well, too late, and certainly should not block regressions on
any platform.
Gerald