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Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Subject: Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- From: Bernd Schmidt <bernds at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 18:26:42 +0100 (BST)
- cc: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, H . J . Lu wrote:
> That brings out several questions:
>
> 1. Shouldn't we have a policy that if there is no objection for a
> patch for a few days, it is approved automatically under one condition
> that it should be reverted immediately by anyone if it causes a
> regression and the author can't fix it with 24/48 hours.
Absolutely not. We need a sanity check - code shouldn't just appear to
work, we should be reasonably certain a change is actually correct before
checking it in. There's quite a difference between the two.
Bernd