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Re: increasing the number of GCC reviewers
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Andrew Haley<aph@redhat.com> wrote:
>> This is precisely my point. It should be perfectly acceptable that some
>> people be authorized to approve some few patches without understanding
>> the whole of GCC, and even without knowing all of it.
>
> GCC isn't really like that. ?Changes in one part can affect things much
> later on, and you really have to know why. ?That doesn't mean you have
> to understand all of the compiler, but you need to have a lot of
> knowledge.
This is a problem with GCC's lack of modularity, not with Basile's
point of view.
Ciao!
Steven