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Re: PATCH: Add myself as libbid maintainer
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak at gmail dot com>
- Cc: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>, GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, GCC <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: 05 Jul 2007 10:59:55 -0700
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Add myself as libbid maintainer
- References: <468D2D21.8020200@gmail.com>
Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com> writes:
> IMO the situation here is the same as with current soft-fp
> situation. The library should be considered as imported from upstream,
> and the decisions w.r.t formatting are inherited from the upstream. In
> soft-fp case, functions don't have prototypes, and we (as in gcc
> developers) can't do nothing about that.
>
> In contrast with soft-fp, libbid library doesn't produce any warnings...
>
> Although not explicitly said, the fixes should be sent upstream (and
> then "imported" from upstream), at least this is the case with all
> other "foreign" libraries.
The situation seems somewhat different to me, since soft-fp is being
inherited from another free software project. In fact, a GNU project.
It doesn't mean that we can work that way, but I would like these
issues to be out on the table, discussed, and documented.
Ian