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Re: [PATCH] Enable building of libsanitizer on sparc linux again.
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 7:10 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Konstantin Serebryany <konstantin.s.serebryany@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 19:01:56 -0800
>
>> I am open to suggestions on how to avoid forking the two versions.
>> If we fork, the original asan team will not be able to cope with two
>> repositories.
>
> The maintainer of the sanitizer's job is to do the merging and resolve
> the conflicts between the two trees. This is how every other similar
> situation is handled.
I am new to the gcc community and may not know all the rules.
But your nice words (lunacy, garbage, etc) are not helping us.
As for the particular problem, I did not even see a patch (did I miss
it? Sorry, I am just back from a long trip)
I'd prefer to mention the ARCHs explicitly where possible, i.e.
#if defined(__x86_64__) || definde (__sparc64__)
instead of
#if __WORDSIZE == 64 || ...
--kcc
>
> What's happening here, frankly, is garbage.
>
> The current situation is unacceptable and HJ's fix should go into the
> GCC tree right now.
>
> The current situation is preventing people from getting work done, and
> unnecessarily consuming developer resources.