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A mailing list for architectural changes?
- From: Sean McNeil <sean at mcneil dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 18 Mar 2003 01:20:20 -0800
- Subject: A mailing list for architectural changes?
- Organization: Sean McNeil Consulting
Hello all,
The gcc mailing list is way too busy for me to keep an eye on and would
cause me to get sucked in to reading a whole lot of interesting, yet
time-consuming, discussions.
Is there or should there be a mailing list that just deals with
architectural changes made in gcc? For instance, I just got stung by a
change made to the way multilibs are determined. Before,
multilib_matches_raw wasn't necessarily required to have a switch
specified in it's array in order for it to be used in multilib_raw.
Now, it has to be or the multilib will not be correctly identified.
It sure would have saved me a lot of time if I had seen some kind of
notification that this behavior had changed. If there isn't anything in
place for such discussion/notification, then I would like to propose a
list be created for this.
The whole -fobey-inline discussion is a case-in-point. Although I have
found this an interesting topic, it would be nice to have a clean area
that gets a notification that the behavior of inlining is about to
change or has changed in some manner (along with a description of the
change).
Sincerely,
Sean