[gfortran] PATCH ping*5 darwin undefined references to _environ

Tobias Schlüter tobias.schlueter@physik.uni-muenchen.de
Mon Feb 28 02:11:00 GMT 2005


Toon Moene wrote:
>>And a question, adding your name and email address to the ChangeLog 
>>entry is curious as you did not modify the patch at all, did you? The 
>>GNU coding standards would seem to indicate that you should not add your 
>>name to the ChangeLog in that case. It is possible (likely?) that gcc 
>>has different rules for ChangeLog entries and I am simply unaware of 
>>them though.
> 
> Hmmm, it could well have been covered by the rules to *not* do it. 
> However, the reason I added my name was because I wanted to take 
> responsibility for this change.  If after half a year someone comes 
> around and asks on the Fortran list why their code has gone, I can find 
> back why I deleted it.

Note that this is also recorded in CVS history.  Also, Mr Vaught will most
likely not start communicating suddenly :-/

- Tobi



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