Clarify rules for testing patches
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk
Sun Nov 18 22:20:00 GMT 2001
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> +<p>If your change is to code that is not in a front-end, or is to
> +the C front-end, you must perform a complete build of GCC and the
The convention is that the noun is spelt "front end".
> <h2>Web pages</h2>
>
> -<p>Note that when you check in changes to our web pages, these will
> -automatically be checked out into the web server's data area.</p>
> +<p>When you check in changes to our web pages, they will automatically
> +be checked out into the web server's data area.</p>
If you check in changes to style.mhtml, does this cause the other web
pages to be automatically regenerated?
> +<p>When you post your change to <code>gcc-patches</code>, indicate
> +what platform you have used for testing.</p>
There should be a note somewhere that "platform" means an exact target
triplet rather than a vague description such as "Alpha" or "x86 Linux".
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk
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