second ping [PATCH] PR debug/5271

[Carlo Wood <carlo at alinoe dot com>]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 02:56:13AM +0200, Carlo Wood wrote:
> Here is another week-old patch, that I'd like to have reviewed:
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-10/msg00968.html
> 
> 
> There are two related issues that would like to bring under
> your attention:
> 
> 1) My legal papers are still not finished; rest assured
>    that I will not commit the patch until the assignment
>    papers are finished and just review the patch as if
>    that problem has been taken care of. (I expect this to
>    be finished within two weeks now).
> 
> 2) This patch is quite 'big' due to the replacement of
>    build(CALL_EXPR,...) with build_call_expr(...) at
>    a lot of places.  If that gives issues with a merge
>    with tree-ssa then I propose to not apply this
>    patch till after the creation of the 3.4 branch;
>    this patch is namely only needed for 3.4 and not
>    for 3.5, as is explained in the url above.
> 
>    Thus:
> 
>      current mainline
>             |
>             |
>   tree-ssa  |
>       |	    |
>       |     |-----.
>       |	    |     |
>       \    /	 Apply patch
>        \  /	  |
>        merge	  V
> 	 |     3.4 branch
> 	 |
> 	 V
>      new mainline
> 
>    because it seems to make no sense to first apply
>    this to mainline, create the 3.4 branch, do
>    the merge with tree-ssa and then remove the
>    patch again from the new mainline.
>    Just a proposal ofcourse :), please let me know
>    what is the prefered procedure.
> 
> -- 
> Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>

I just posted the assignment papers.

Jason / Geoff, can one of you please give me some feedback
on this patch?  Or tell me who should be reviewing it?

-- 
Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>