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Re: [PATCH] Improve PR28796
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> Roger Sayle wrote:
>
> > Of course, my preference is for contributors, including you and I, to
> > voluntarily hold-off on posting patches that are only suitable for 4.3
> > until after we branch. Better still to post regression fixes. But
> > perhaps the burden should be on reviewers not to comment on 4.3 patches?
>
> I would ask that contributors work on (and review) GCC 4.2 regression patches.
> (Today is CodeSourcery's GCC 4.2 hack-a-thon, and I will be trying to review
> all patches posted, to the extent I am competent, as well as fixing some bugs
> of my own!) However, if you do happen to have fixed something that should go
> in GCC 4.3, I think it's OK to post it, and OK to review it. That's still
> useful work -- just not necessarily the most useful thing to do in terms of
> helping to move us along.
Sure - I'm usually hoping to bypass the being-a-regression requirement
for mainline for wrong-code bugfixes like this one.
Richard.
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Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de>
Novell / SUSE Labs