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Re: Patch to java/parse.y
Lucas (a.k.a T-Bird or bsdfan3) writes:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
>
> >Lucas (a.k.a T-Bird or bsdfan3) writes:
> > > This patch splits the helper functions from java/parse.y off into their
> > > own file, java/parse_helper.c. I am unable to test this patch, due to
> > > the fact that my only development platform does not support
> > > bootstrapping the Java front end. :(
> >
> >What is the purpose of this patch?
> This patch is intended to jump-start the work on shrinking/splitting
> large files.
But what for? Has there been some discussion that I've missed? Doing
this sort of mass change loses CVS history, which is a very valuable
resource.
Andrew.