Re: Bootstrap broken for more than 10 days on cygwin and mingw

[Kai Tietz <ktietz70 at googlemail dot com>]

2009/5/14 Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>:
> Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>> I had already looked at the
>> patch and made the same comment that Michael did: to use the enum
>> constants rather than the casts. ?I probably could have said that more
>> clearly. ?My apologies.
>
>> problem as soon as it is brought to my attention; in this case there
>> was already a patch, and I already reviewed it,
>
> ?I didn't understand your email as a formal review, partly since it was in a
> different thread on a different list, and didn't clearly say "do this" but was
> worded as if offering a general opinion, rather than a pre-condition of
> approval, and also partly because I was more expecting the win32 maintainers
> to end up approving it so I was waiting to hear from them too. ?I guess I
> could have been a little quicker to drive it forward than I was, given that
> it's a bootstrap-breaker maybe it would have been appropriate to start pinging
> it sooner than I would otherwise do for an ordinary patch?
>
> ?Anyhow, all fixed now and no serious harm done. ?FX, I appreciate your
> desire for stability, but I reckon Ian's right; it just isn't practical to
> test everything everywhere, and I reckon it works best to get stuff committed
> once it's reasonably-well-tested, and iron out the last few bugs on mainline
> during stage 1, when a bit of instability is only to be expected, because it
> keeps GCC moving forward. ?Yes, that then necessitates a bit of volunteer
> effort to look after the other targets, and they risk bitrotting if neglected
> for a while, but I think we get from A to B faster this way even if we do take
> the occasional mis-step.
>
> ? ?cheers,
> ? ? ?DaveK
>
>

Ok, I approve this patch, when at least a bootstrap for one of the
i386 mingw targets was done.

Cheers,
Kai

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