Re: Who should fix platforms broken by extern inline hack?

[Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>]

"FranÃois-Xavier Coudert" <fxcoudert@gmail.com> writes:

> There are two platforms on which mainline is broken:
>   * bootstrap is broken for i386-netbsd, see PR30058
>   * the compiler built on i386-mingw32 is unusable, see PR30589
> 
> Both regressions were introduced by Geoffrey Keating
> (http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2006-11/msg00003.html) in a "C99
> extern inline" patch. Fixincludes were then created for glibc systems.
> 
> In both cases, I'm ready to debug (I attached the full preprocessed
> source of minimal examples to both PR) and test patches, but I simply
> don't know whom I should ping to get bootstrap working again:
> Geoffrey, who introduced the change that broke so many platforms, or
> the maintainers for these branches? (it might be worth noting at that
> point that netbsd doesn't have a maintainer listed)

This is just my opinion.  Technically, Geoff is responsible for
breaking bootstrap with his patch.  As a practical matter, Geoff
probably does not have access to those platforms, so while he knows a
lot about gcc and has the ability to approve the patches, he won't be
able to test them, so you will do better to send your patches to the
attention of the appropriate maintainers as well as Geoff.

There is in fact a NetBSD maintainer: Jason Thorpe,
thorpej@netbsd.org.  (Last I heard, he also works for Apple.)

By the way, I've started looking into straightening out what I
consider to be the current extern inline mess.

Ian