Re: gcj on intel mac patches

[Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay at redhat dot com>]

Sandro Tolaini wrote:
> I have also found and patched two bugs in Classpath (in the Win32 
> port). They are present even in the gcc trunk. What is the patching 
> policy for them? Do you incorporate foreign patches in Classpath or do 
> you only send patches to Classpath authors and sync with Classpath 
> project every now and then?

In general, patches for Classpath should be submitted upstream and we 
wait to pick them up in a merge. However, exceptions can be made in 
cases of important fixes for bugs that break a build or a platform, for 
example.

Note that some classes, including java.io.File, are not fully merged 
with Classpath, and libgcj's own implementation (outside of 
libjava/classpath) is used. Changes for those should be submitted to 
libgcj, as well as Classpath, if applicable.

Bryce