Re: ada/6558: [mainline regression] Wrongly reverted patches

[Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>]

The following reply was made to PR ada/6558; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
To: Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org, bosch@gcc.gnu.org,
	jsm28@cam.ac.uk, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: ada/6558: [mainline regression] Wrongly reverted patches
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 23:19:19 -0800

 On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 02:05:06AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
 > What sort of progress can we make on this?
 > 
 > Clearly what needs to be checked are the patches to the FSF tree from 
 > 2001 and earlier.  But how much earlier ?!?  Is there an earlier point 
 > at which we know that the ACT (?) tree had been merged *from* the FSF 
 > tree, so that we don't need to look earlier than that?  Otherwise this 
 > is potentially an endless problem.
 
 My understanding is that the only patches at issue were those lost
 when this change occurred:
 
 2002-03-07  Geert Bosch  <bosch@gnat.com>
 
         * 41intnam.ads, 42intnam.ads, 4aintnam.ads, 4cintnam.ads,
         4dintnam.ads, 4gintnam.ads, 4hintnam.ads, 4lintnam.ads,
         4mintnam.ads, 4pintnam.ads, 4rintnam.ads, 4sintnam.ads,
         4uintnam.ads, 4vcalend.adb, 4zintnam.ads, 52system.ads,
         5amastop.adb, 5asystem.ads, 5ataprop.adb, 5atpopsp.adb,
         5avxwork.ads, 5bosinte.adb, 5bsystem.ads, 5esystem.ads,
 	[...]
         utils.c, utils2.c, validsw.adb, xnmake.adb, xr_tabls.adb,
         xr_tabls.ads, xref_lib.adb, xref_lib.ads : Merge in ACT changes.
 
         * 1ssecsta.adb, 1ssecsta.ads, a-chlat9.ads, a-cwila9.ads,
         g-enblsp.adb, g-md5.adb, g-md5.ads, gnatname.adb, gnatname.ads,
         mkdir.c, osint-b.adb, osint-b.ads, osint-c.adb, osint-c.ads,
         osint-l.adb, osint-l.ads, osint-m.adb, osint-m.ads : New files
 
         * 3lsoccon.ads, 5qparame.ads, 5qvxwork.ads, 5smastop.adb,
         5zparame.ads, gnatmain.adb, gnatmain.ads, gnatpsys.adb : Removed
 
         * mdllfile.adb, mdllfile.ads, mdlltool.adb, mdlltool.ads : Renamed
         to mdll-fil.ad[bs] and mdll-util.ad[bs]
 
         * mdll-fil.adb, mdll-fil.ads, mdll-utl.adb, mdll-utl.ads : Renamed
         from mdllfile.ad[bs] and mdlltool.ad[bs]
 
 I would like to point out that it is just shy of eight months since
 this happened, and there has been no indication that Mr. Bosch has
 lifted a finger to address the problem that he created (beyond
 claiming that it would be fixed soon).
 
 I am tempted to invoke the patch reversion procedure and demand that
 this entire merge be backed out.  I will certainly do so if the issue
 is not resolved by the time 3.3 branches.
 
 zw