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Re: df.c and partial writes/REG_EQUAL notes
- To: dan at cgsoftware dot com, kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu
- Subject: Re: df.c and partial writes/REG_EQUAL notes
- From: mike stump <mrs at windriver dot com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 14:15:33 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
> To: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
> Cc: dan@cgsoftware.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
> From: Daniel Berlin <dan@cgsoftware.com>
> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 14:41:38 -0400
> A review of a patch tells you what is necessary to make it acceptable
> for gcc. Not whether a particular person with global write access
> likes it.
I don't see anything evidence that what was done was wrong. I can't
help but wonder if your expectations of what the process is is flawed
or deficient. I think you have many unreasonable expectations.
I don't see it as wrong for a maintainer to offer a partial review of
a patch instead of a complete review of the patch. I don't see it as
wrong if a maintainer only states what you consider is just his
opinion of a patch. I don't see it as wrong if a maintainer misses a
deficiency of a patch. I don't see it as wrong if a maintainer uses
different definitions of patch, review, code, correct, or compiler
from you... I don't see it as wrong if a maintainer doesn't review
a patch.
> Note that a review of the patch would have noticed the documentation
> was deficient. This is what would make the patch acceptable, for
> the most part, (at least in this case), to other global write
> people.
If that is the case, why are we having this discussion? Fix the
documentation and have have it accepted. We can be sure this is the
case, after you do it.
> It is a statement that gives you some indication as to whether
> or not they will review that patch. It is not a review in and of
> itself.
Sounds like a semantic game. Feel free to submit changes to the web
site that desribe what you discover the process is, so that you will
believe the words are accurate.