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PATCH for Re: PATCH: gccbug.in and new GNATS category "bootstrap"
- To: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Subject: PATCH for Re: PATCH: gccbug.in and new GNATS category "bootstrap"
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 11:35:21 +0200 (CEST)
- cc: <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
Mark, as I had promised. Sorry for the delay.
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>>> * gccbug.in (CATEGORIES): Add "bootstrap".
>> I think we want to discourage, not encourage, people to submit
>> bootstrap problems as bugs.
> We'll soon update the documentation accordingly.
Installed.
Gerald
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<dd>This indicates the GCC subproject which is affected by the problem.
Currently, it can be one of
<dl>
+ <dt>bootstrap</dt>
+ <dd>GCC fails to bootstrap. This should be filed <em>only</em> if a
+ bootstrap failure prevails for an extended period of time (at least
+ one week) on any platform (and possibly not-so-common conditions like
+ a read-only srcdir), or non-mainstream platforms.
<dt>c++</dt>
<dd>A problem with the C++ compiler.</dd>
<dt>c</dt>