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Re: bootstrap problems
- To: Jan Hubicka <jh at suse dot cz>
- Subject: Re: bootstrap problems
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: 07 Jun 2001 12:30:35 +0200
- Cc: Jeffrey Oldham <oldham at codesourcery dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC
- References: <20010605091247.A7113@codesourcery.com> <20010606132120.F5609@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <20010606084820.A8350@codesourcery.com> <20010607120702.G27948@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz> writes:
| This is definitly problem for people doing development on the mips machine
| and is really unfortunate. Jeffrey has suggested to revert the patch,
| but I believe this is not best solution for few purposes:
| 1) the patch is not buggy by itself in some point of view - just traps latent
| bug and as it is IMO good.
This is not the first time this type of problem is showing up.
I think, no matter how good is your patch, if it prevents people from
bootstrapping and continuing their work then it ought to be reverted
until a patch is found for the latent bug.
We should not take the exponential-growth road of branching. We do
already have a developement branch and we should keep it as the
referential development source for everybody.
-- Gaby
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