Re: GCC build of HEAD failed for native with your patch on2004-09-04T15:32:13Z.

[James E Wilson <wilson at specifixinc dot com>]

On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 14:21, Andreas Tobler wrote:
> Jim would you please take care of this breakage?

Please note that I am not the one that broke mainline.  What I did was
discover that 5 months ago a patch was checked in that had a typo that
accidentally caused an important gcc feature to be turned off, and I
just fixed the typo, making gcc work the way it was supposed to have
worked all along.  Meanwhile, other people have checked in patches that
broke mainline, but the breakage was not discovered until I fixed the
typo.

I don't mind volunteering some free time to work on this problem, though
I do think that requiring me to fix the problem is unreasonable.  Other
people can break gcc much faster than I can fix it.  There is no way
that I can accept responsibility for all bugs introduced by other
people.

I suspect that this particular breakage was caused by a patch from David
Edelsohn in June (the extendsfdf2 define_insn_and_split patch), but I
have not tried to verify that.  It is possible that some other patch
created the problem.

For the record, I did send mail Friday offering to look at this problem
if no one else did.  I didn't look at it immediately because,
technically, I didn't create the problem.  Also, this is a 3-day holiday
weekend in the US, so everything is a bit slow on this side of the pond,
but I did come in during my holiday and check in a patch for it today.
-- 
Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com