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Re: [Re: unapplied PATCH for Altivec vector literal syntax]
>>>>> "Aldy" == Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com> writes:
>>>>> "Segher" == Segher Boessenkool <segher@chello.nl> writes:
>> Aldy Hernandez wrote:
>>>
>>> > It might be useful to put this patch into the source tree (as an actual
>>> > patch file, of course), prefixed with a little piece of text stating why it
>>> > is a bad thing to use this, where in the manual to find info about how to
>>> > change your sources so that you don't need this, and other discouragements?
>>>
>>> Absolutely! Are you volunteering? ;-)
>> Well, Jason told me this would still be too much of an approval.
>> So you guys fight it out first, and then I will volunteer, yes.
> I don't see why the source to the patch can't go in a contrib/
> directory or something.
Because it's bad and wrong. I want to send it to Altivec and forget about it.
Jason