Re: FR-V FDPIC ABI (frv-uclinux and frv-linux) implementation

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>]

On Feb 12, 2004, Richard Sandiford <rsandifo@redhat.com> wrote:

> Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:
>> from  Alexandre Oliva  <aoliva@redhat.com>
>> 
>> 2004-01-27  Alexandre Oliva  <aoliva@redhat.com>
>> * libtool.m4 (lt_cv_deplibs_check_method): Set to pass all on
>> frv-*-uclinux* and frv-*-linux-gnu*.
>> * libstdc++-v3/configure: Rebuilt.
>> 2003-12-18  Alexandre Oliva  <aoliva@redhat.com>
>> * ltconfig (uclinux*): Handle like linux-gnu*.
>> * ltcf-cxx.sh (uclinux*): Don't disable shared libs.
>> 2003-10-31  Alexandre Oliva  <aoliva@redhat.com>
>> * configure.in: Add frv-*-*linux*.
>> * configure: Rebuilt.

> What's the policy for submissions like this?

The dates of writing and/or first publishing are important for
copyright purposes.  Since there were releases to customers prior to
publication in this list, I find it very important to have all the
relevant dates in the ChangeLog, even if it clutters things up a bit.

> It doesn't matter much for the toplevel stuff quoted above, but for
> the main gcc patch, there are lots of cases where something was added
> in the private tree and changed or deleted by a later entry.
> It's difficult to tell looking from the ChangeLog what the patch
> is actually doing. ;)

Which is why there is the summary in the beginning, that I failed to
add in the first posting last year.  One could argue that it might be
a good idea to summarize everything into a single ChangeLog entry;
I've actually done that before, but it's an insane amount of
error-prone work for very little benefit, and it loses the copyright
information, which has legal implications I'd rather avoid.

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