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Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Subject: Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- From: Bernd Schmidt <bernds at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 12:00:04 +0100 (BST)
- cc: "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> Actually, I think this example is a good one for showing why the
> reversion policy is good. I very much appreciated your attempt at
> a patch, but going down a road of cascading changes (we change the
> MIPS backend, but then break something else, then go change that)
> at the point we were in the release would have been a wrong decision.
For release branches, that makes sense. For the mainline, IMO, not
at all.
Bernd