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Re: Patch: darwin specific
- From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
- To: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>
- Cc: Dale Johannesen <dalej at apple dot com>,Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 23:56:07 +0000
- Subject: Re: Patch: darwin specific
- References: <20021125212758.GA12098@daikokuya.co.uk> <D74D82AC-0717-11D7-9FB6-000393941EE6@apple.com>
Mike Stump wrote:-
> You already pay for it. His patch doesn't change that. If you want to
> not pay for it, please do up that patch and submit it. The usual rules
> are that the first to submit wins. We do this to encourage people to
> submit work. We should reject it, only if it is flawed, broken, or
> bad. I understand how this patch complicates a future patch to slim
> down identifier nodes, but I think flexing the post patch code to use a
> slightly different scheme isn't all that hard.
Well fine, but like you say it complicates something that is already
complicated enough. These things have a habit of never being undone.
Note I have nothing against PPC; I have one myself as well as several
x86 machines. I just don't like port-specific hacks bogging down port
independent structures.
Neil.