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Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- To: bernds at redhat dot com (Bernd Schmidt)
- Subject: Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot COM>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:33:34 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: mark at codesourcery dot com (Mark Mitchell), aoliva at redhat dot com (Alexandre Oliva), dewar at gnat dot com (dewar at gnat dot com), kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org (gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org)
Bernd writes:
> To come back to the start of the discussion: what I object to is an
> _automatic_ reversion policy for the mainline. (Any policy that
> could be enforced by a computer isn't intelligent enough :-)
I agree with you that reversions should not be automatic.
> [1] Some regressions we do not even care about. So what if romp
> doesn't build?
Agreed, we should only care about primary platforms. One issue (and
the one that's blocking your patch, if I understand correctly) is that
we have no MIPS maintainer. If we had one, and s/he agreed with your
analysis and agreed to fix the MIPS backend, we could take your changes
and have some hope of eventually having MIPS working again. So it seems
that the major blockage is that we have an important back end with no
maintainer.
I think that we can accept breakage in the trunk if we have a plan and a
volunteer to fix the breakage quickly. In that case it is temporary.