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Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up


On Jul 10, 2001, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:

> Do you object in the normal case, or just the "latent" case?

Just the latent case.  Patches that are buggy in themselves should
definitely be fixed in a timely manner or backed out.  I agree the
latent-bug case is quite rarer than the broken-patch case, and I
regretted, in part, having made so much noise about it.  It just so
happens that I had lived this very situation before, when I pushed for
the 64-bit CONST_INT patches, and it turned out that the fact that I
couldn't get my patch installed prevented myself from making progress
for a while.

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