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

[Geoffrey Keating <geoffk at apple dot com>]

On 30/01/2007, at 8:48 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> "François-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.

As it turns out, I do now have access to a NetBSD system, and will  
look at that problem when I next get time.

My understanding from 30589 is that a sufficiently recent version of  
mingw32 has solved the problem.

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