Re: Reenabling Ada by default

["Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>]

 > From: Robert Dewar
 > 
 > One thing that might be useful in this discussion is if people
 > chose particular examples of patches to illustrate what they
 > meant, rather than speaking in generalities.

Easy.  These are the last four patches sibmitted by Arno submitted
over the last month.  Note they don't occur on a daily basis as
previously claimed.

They are all just ChangeLogs and attached gzip files.  There is no
explanation of what's being changed or why.  This is entirely opaque.

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-09/msg00045.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-08/msg01047.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-08/msg00836.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-08/msg00495.html


Contrast that to this patch posting:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-09/msg00749.html

Note, the author rth needs commit approval from no one.  Nevertheless,
he creates one small patch to fix one problem.  He provides a
diagnosis and explanation and a reference to a PR in our bug database
which includes a testcase a reduced testcase a recipe for recreating
the bug plus further discussion.

A curious GCC developer can read and learn from this narrowly focused
bugfixing example.  Reading the Ada code drops doesn't even come
close to illuminating what's going on.

		--Kaveh
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Kaveh R. Ghazi			ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu