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Re: Mainline is now regression and documentation fixes only

From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
To: Peter Bergner <bergner at vnet dot ibm dot com>
Cc: Richard Guenther <rguenther at suse dot de>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>, Janis Johnson <janis187 at us dot ibm dot com>, Ben Elliston <bje at au1 dot ibm dot com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:10:26 -0700
Subject: Re: Mainline is now regression and documentation fixes only
References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801231159500.23003@zhemvz.fhfr.qr> <1201104700.20111.75.camel@otta> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801231712580.23003@zhemvz.fhfr.qr> <1201106888.20111.96.camel@otta>
Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Bergner <bergner@vnet.ibm.com> writes:

Peter> And there's the rub.  This has been broken from day one on GCC,
Peter> so technically, it is not a regression (IIRC, DFP support was
Peter> added in early GCC 4.3, Janis and/or Ben would know for sure).

I thought we had an additional rule that allowed fixes in new
features.  IMO it does not make much sense to ship a new feature with
known bugs, at least not if the bug can be fixed without undue risk.

Tom

References:
- Mainline is now regression and documentation fixes only
  - From: Richard Guenther
- Re: Mainline is now regression and documentation fixes only
  - From: Peter Bergner
- Re: Mainline is now regression and documentation fixes only
  - From: Richard Guenther
- Re: Mainline is now regression and documentation fixes only
  - From: Peter Bergner

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