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Re: New GNATS category request
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- To: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>, "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 16:59:22 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: New GNATS category request
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0212102232140.23616-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk>
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> Neil wrote:
>> "driver", pretty please. Many bugs in the driver get stuffed anywhere
>> from "c", to "other" and "preprocessor".
Neil, if you provide me with a short description (like we have for the
other categories, you can see these using gnatsweb, for example) and an
update for gnats.html and gccbug.in, I will setup this.
> If we're adding new categories now (not waiting for Bugzilla), "target" is
> long overdue to have separate categories for the main CPU and OS targets
> split off (target-i386, target-sparc, target-linux-gnu, ...).
> (Previously requested.) That way target maintainers can more easily
> select the bugs actually relevant to them.
I don't have any strong opinion here, but this seems like more invasive
(and disputed, when it comes to the actual details) change, though if
there is consensus, I don't see problems adding further categories.
Gerald
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