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Re: Comments on Patching GCC
On Sep 24, 2004, at 11:52 AM, Andrew Pinski wrote:
On Sep 24, 2004, at 2:43 PM, Devang Patel wrote:
I am not sure this is true in reality. Look at the last 100 patches
posted on gcc-patch. How many of them has bugzilla reference ?
Actually at this point, more than 50% of them do because users are
starting
to use 4.0.0 and file bug reports against it. But before stage3,
there were
less than 50% of the patches were to file a bug report.
Which means, it is OK to post patches without bugzilla reference.
Another reason
why people don't file a bug report before submitting the patch is
because
they have a patch already to fix the bug they were looking into.
same here.
http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html#patches does not ask bugzilla
reference for new features.
But that is because the main use for bugzilla is for users rather than
developers for filing bugs/enhancements.
And this says that following is not 100% true! :-)
" Yes Bugzilla is used to keep track of feature development and other
enhancements like optimization passes "
Caroline raised good question as part of this discussion and it is
still unanswered.
-
Devang
[Note: I am not arguing whether each patch should include bugzilla
reference or not.]