Re: Discussion about merging Go frontend

["Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> > I presume you will be posting the front end and other changes for review 
> > (or, I suppose, given the size of the changes, explicitly stating that you 
> > propose for review the diffs between particular revisions of trunk and a 
> > branch given by a particular svn diff command) as indicated in 
> > <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2010-01/msg00504.html>.
> 
> I will post all changes outside of the gcc/go and libgo directories for
> review, certainly.  I would also appreciate review for the code in
> gcc/go and libgo on the branch.  Whether review is required for that
> code is an interesting question.  I have been assuming that I would
> become the initial maintainer for the gcc/go and libgo directories.  As
> such, I would be permitted to make changes to those directories without
> review.  So is review required for the initial checkin?  I don't know.

I think new front ends should be reviewed for general style, coding 
conventions, use of deprecated interfaces, unportabilities etc., just as 
new back ends should be reviewed.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com