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Re: patch rereview requested for PRs 6860, 10467 and 11741
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- To: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Cc: roger at eyesopen dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 21 Sep 2003 06:02:16 +0200
- Subject: Re: patch rereview requested for PRs 6860, 10467 and 11741
- Organization: Integrable Solutions
- References: <10309210114.AA13020@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) writes:
| Indeed, the full motivation for why the patch is believed to be
| correct have been presented several times. The "before, we'd ICE"
| was a counter argument against the silly claims the patch would
| introduce new regressions.
|
| If you hadn't used the word "silly", I'd agree. Showing that all a patch
| does is turn something that used to ICE into something else is an
| exceptionally convincing proof that the patch can't break a bootstrap or
| introduce regressions.
However, that sole argument is not sufficiently convincing, int that
it may turn an ICE into bad code generation. I'd rather an ICE than a
silent bad code generation.
| However, that is only *one* requirement that a potential patch must meet.
agreed.
-- Gaby