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Re: Revert libsanitizer patches or fix 59009


On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Michael Meissner
<meissner@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:45:54AM +0400, Kostya Serebryany wrote:
>> Many thanks, Jakub.
>>
>> I don't want to appear in this situation again.
>> Would you suggest a place to create a wiki page which would list all
>> required steps to test libsanitizer?
>>
>> libsanitizer is (unfortunately) a very system-dependent beast and our
>> upstream commits will break other platforms regularly;
>> that's unavoidable unless each platform's community helps us test the
>> code upstream. (I.e. I encourage PowerPC folks to help us in the LLVM
>> land)
>
> Maybe it should be removed completely then, if you are going to break things on
> a regular basis.  Or at least made a configuration option that is OFF by
> default.  Or kept in a branch.

Ok, unless someone commits to support libsanitizer for PowerPC in gcc
repository
I am going to disable it before the next merge.

--kcc


>
>> For gcc merges, all we can promise to do is to run any amount of
>> testing (described on a to-be-created wiki) on an x86_64 linux
>> machine.
>> For other kinds of testing we'll rely on the platform owners.
>> If we break someone's platform, we expect the owners to send us
>> patches which we can commit upstream. That's what happened with x32
>> last week.
>
> NO, NO, NO, NO.  We have the GCC compile farm for a reason.  Use it to test
> system dependent changes before committing them to the trunk.
>
> I have too much on my plate that I'm scrambling to get my changes done before
> stage1 closes.  I don't have time or engery to fix code that other people
> broke.
>
> I'm sorry, but I'm really getting annoyed by the length of time it has taken to
> get this resolved.
>
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> Michael Meissner, IBM
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