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Re: [PATCH] style fix for aix51.h and rs6000/mach.h
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 01:46:14AM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> > May I also apply this to the 3.0 branch?
>
> I don't see that it fixes a regression from 2.95, so it doesn't meet
> the criteria for going on the branch.
My fear is that the 3.0 branch will become like the 2.95 branch that
lives for years as the "latest" compiler -- which was basically a dead
branch once 2.95 was out the door. IMHO the FSF/GCC really needs to
follow a more liberal merge from trunk policy to keep the trunk and
branch closer to gether to make it easier to do diffs and bring down [low
risk] bug fixes. Binutils has a looser merge from trunk policy than GCC
and it works well IMHO. As does FreeBSD.
``cvs -q diff -u0 -rgcc-3_0-branch -r1'' already produces a 17 meg diff
of 522,907 lines, and this is even before 3.0 is released.
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)