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Re: more CYGNUS LOCAL removal
- To: rearnsha at arm dot com
- Subject: Re: more CYGNUS LOCAL removal
- From: Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 13:12:53 -0800
- CC: pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, rearnsha at arm dot com
- References: <200011071835.SAA01389@cam-mail2.cambridge.arm.com>
- Reply-to: geoffk at redhat dot com
> Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 18:35:13 +0000
> From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
> I thought the CYGNUS LOCAL markers were intended to mark bits of code that
> should not be installed in the public trees -- that is, they were intended
> to mark areas of code that needed special attention (and probably removal)
> when code was being exported from a Cygnus repository to a public one.
>
> If that is the case, then either the code so marked shouldn't be in the
> gcc tree, or the markers are now redundant and can be removed entirely.
> There seems to be no reason why they have to be converted to a different
> marker.
>
> I guess only Cygnus/Redhat employee can answer this definitively.
These particular markers (I believe) also mark the difference between
gnu-regex.c and the regular GNU regex.c.
I didn't want to lose any information the markers might be recording,
and I didn't want to change the code, and I did want to get
'CYGNUS LOCAL' markers out of GCC because they interfere with the
merging process in the internal Red Hat tree, so I did this as the
safe choice.
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>