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Re: [RFC] Contributing tree-ssa to mainline


On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Diego Novillo wrote:

> Thanks.  Are these requirements listed somewhere in our web pages? 
> They'll be a useful reminder if we decide to merge the branch for 3.5.

codingconventions.html has all the documentedness requirements.  Such
things as no "GNU CC" references are a matter of having followed all the
global cleanups that have gone in on mainline while tree-ssa has been on a
branch, and done them on tree-ssa to the extent that CVS merges wouldn't
have caught them.

One key advantage of tree-ssa (as I see it) is a cleaned-up front-end
interface.  As such it is a golden opportunity for a *documented*
front-end interface, so I think it is critical that everything new and
changed in the front-end interface must be documented when the branch is
merged if we are ever to aspire to having the front-end interface even as
well documented as the back-end interface (which still suffers from
maintainers adding undocumented interfaces and ignoring regression bugs
such as 3386).

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm@polyomino.org.uk


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