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Re: [patch fold-const.c]: Add some missing optimizations about binary and and truth-not
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:37:30AM -0400, NightStrike wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 01:50:26PM +0200, Kai Tietz wrote:
>> >> Applied at revision 175206 to trunk.
>> >
>> > There is no need to post such notices to gcc-patches, we have the gcc-cvs
>> > mailing list where this is automatically posted to.
>> > On gcc-patches it just adds unnecessary noise.
>>
>> Until there is some way to easily map an email on gcc-patches to an
>> email on gcc-cvs, or a legitimate patch tracker instead of just
>> mailing lists, then it is very useful "noise". ?I've found at least a
>> hundred dropped patches so far for our project alone. ?You can always
>> just delete the email instead of reading it.
>
> No, our guidelines say that such mails shouldn't be sent:
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/svnwrite.html
> "When you have checked in a patch exactly as it has been approved, you do
> not need to tell that to people -- including the approver. People
> interested in when a particular patch is committed can check SVN or the
> gcc-cvs list."
"do not need" != "cannot"
>
> This has been discussed several times. ?So no, this noise isn't at all
> useful nor welcome.
useful or welcome.... TO YOU. Obviously, it's useful to us.
> ? ? ? ?Jakub
>