Re: [PATCH v3] Re: avoid useless if-before-free tests

[Jim Meyering <jim at meyering dot net>]

Janne Blomqvist wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 18:51, Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> wrote:
>> Janne Blomqvist wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 19:53, Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> wrote:
>>>> Relative to v2, I've added libgo/ to the list of exempt directories and added
>>>> this recently discussed gfc_free patch, at the request of Tobias Burnus.
>>>> Also, I corrected an error in fortran's ChangeLog and removed all
>>>> whitespace changes from all ChangeLog files.
>>>
>>> The libgfortran changes are Ok for 4.7.
>>>
>>> For the gfortran frontend (gcc/fortran/*) I'd prefer if you'd
>>>
>>> - Replace all calls to "gfc_free (x)" with "free (x)".
>>> - Remove the gfc_free() function and prototype.
>>> - Remove the free() macro which currently prevents calling free() directly.
>>
>> Following up, I've refreshed the series but hit a minor snag
>> while converting new uses of gfc_free, removing new tests-before-free
>> and merging/reordering changes.
>>
>> Applying this fix first makes my problem go away:
>
> [snip]
>
> So, what's the plan here? Do you plan to get a GCC account, do you
> already have one, or what? Now that 4.7 is open for development, it's
> perhaps the right time to poke the maintainers to get this patch in.
>
> If you don't have a GCC account, as one of the Fortran maintainers I
> can commit the Fortran and libgfortran parts, but someone else will
> have to do the rest (were they ever approved, BTW?) as I have only
> write after approval privileges for the rest of GCC.

Can someone add me to the gcc group?  That would help.
I already have ssh access to sourceware.org.

I've rebased the series a few times, but it's been a week or so.
More convertible uses are being added regularly.
Plus I have to reorder/split things a little to avoid a new conflict.