Re: Pending bugs for GNU

[Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 01:58:14AM +0100, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> On Saturday 14 January 2006 01:42, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> > Could someone check the bugs that depend on #21824?  They have been
> > pending for several months now with no activity, and it is kinda bad
> > karma not having GCC working on the GNU system.
> 
> The usual process is that you post them to the gcc-patches mailing
> list for review.  And if they are approved, you can commit then or
> you can ask someone to commit them for you.  As far as I can tell,
> you have never posted the patches.  At least, there is no sign of
> that in the PR audit trails.

Some of the patches introduce memory leaks (allocating a buffer that is
never freed), and taken as a whole, they add redundant code -- instead of
introducing one function to build a pathname on the heap, we see local
code to do roughly the same thing, six or seven separate times.