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Re: Ada updates frozen
- From: Roger Sayle <roger at eyesopen dot com>
- To: Arnaud Charlet <charlet at ACT-Europe dot FR>, Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>, Jan Hubicka <jh at suse dot cz>, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 07:11:08 -0700 (MST)
- Subject: Re: Ada updates frozen
Hi Arno,
> This is to inform you that due to major recent changes in the GCC back-end
> which completely broke Ada builds (it started with ia64, and now include
> at least ia32 and possibly other platforms), I am currently not in a position
> to test any of our Ada changes, so I have to hold on any update on the
> tree.
I think you are well within your rights to invoke the "patch reversion"
rule and start the 48-hour clock ticking. If x86/IA-64 bootstrap can't
be restored on mainline by Tuesday the patches should be pulled, or the
problematic aspects temporarily disabled.
As a compromise, removing simultaneous support for XFmode and TFmode
for non-Ada languages from mainline can also be viewed as a regression
from today's CVS, which will give Zack, Jan and the Ada folks the freedom
to work on resolving the issue during the rest of stage3.
I'm sure Zack and Jan much appreciate the Ada folks efforts to fix this
problem themselves. After all its the patch submitters responsibility
to resolve major regressions caused by their patches. At the very least,
this should prompt them to include Ada in the list of languages they
enable when testing changes, its even the default on many recent Linux
distributions.
Zack, Jan, Mark, does this sound reasonable?
Roger
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