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Re: GCC build of HEAD failed for native with your patch on2004-09-04T15:32:13Z.
On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 16:17 -0700, James E Wilson wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 14:21, Andreas Tobler wrote:
> > Jim would you please take care of this breakage?
>
> Please note that I am not the one that broke mainline. What I did was
> discover that 5 months ago a patch was checked in that had a typo that
> accidentally caused an important gcc feature to be turned off, and I
> just fixed the typo, making gcc work the way it was supposed to have
> worked all along. Meanwhile, other people have checked in patches that
> broke mainline, but the breakage was not discovered until I fixed the
> typo.
...
>
> I don't mind volunteering some free time to work on this problem,
> though
> I do think that requiring me to fix the problem is unreasonable.
> Other
> people can break gcc much faster than I can fix it. There is no way
> that I can accept responsibility for all bugs introduced by other
> people.
>
>
I was under the distinct impression that our policy was that the person
responsible for uncovering the latent bug is the one who is supposed to
fix it, regardless of whether they originally caused it.
In fact, I remember reading this numerous times on the mailing list.
Is this incorrect?
Can somebody please clarify?
--Dan