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Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- To: Gabriel Dos Reis <Gabriel dot Dos-Reis at cmla dot ens-cachan dot fr>
- Subject: Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 10 Jul 2001 17:57:14 -0300
- Cc: Bernd Schmidt <bernds at redhat dot com>, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107101110430.20390-100000@host140.cambridge.redhat.com><fl66d1rqwl.fsf@sel.cmla.ens-cachan.fr>
On Jul 10, 2001, Gabriel Dos Reis <Gabriel.Dos-Reis@cmla.ens-cachan.fr> wrote:
> Bernd Schmidt <bernds@redhat.com> writes:
> | The problem is that the buggy code is _already_ checked in, and it'll have
> | to be fixed somehow. I'm not of the opinion that choosing the convenient
> | solution of ignoring the problems and reverting patches that expose them
> | is a good idea.
> I think the proposal isn't to forget completely the good patch.
> As I understand it, it is about
> 1) taking it out temporarily
> 2) fix the latent bug
> 3) then recheck-in the good patch.
This is a longish recipe to get a number of such patches forgotten,
unless the proponent of the patch has enough energy (and time) to get
the other problem exposed by the patch fixed. I don't think it's fair
to place the burden on the proponent of the patch, who has already
fixed one bug, after all. At the very least, the maintainer of the
component in which the latent bug existed should share part of the
burden, and, IMO, so should anybody else involved in the development
of GCC and interested on the platform on which the bug shows up.
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