64-bit PowerPC Altivec support

[Andrew Pinski]

On Oct 17, 2003, at 11:50 AM, Wolfgang Bangerth wrote:

>
>>> Segher mentioned that this patch fixes a couple PRs.  Can the PRs be
>>> closed, and mentioned in the ChangeLog?
>>
>> If we mention the PRs in the Changelog, the Bugzilla maintainers will
>> see them, test again, and close the bug.  At least that's how I think
>> it works.
>
> No. We _may_ see them, but in general we can't test them except on the 
> most
> widely available platforms. powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnualtivec is 
> certainly
> not one of them. Mentioning a PR in the ChangeLog is only useful since 
> it
> adds this ChangeLog entry to the audit trail of the PR, adding a 
> cross-link
> so to say.
>
> Please close the PRs yourself. Otherwise we end up with lots of PRs 
> for which
> something was committed half a year ago and nobody knows any more 
> whether
> that fixed the PR or not. Also, what's the purpose of having someone 
> else
> testing again if you already know that the bug is fixed.

In this case, out of these three bugs, I reported two of them,
I will close them if they do not get closed when the patch goes in.
And I know what is causing the third one to crash and I will also check 
on it.


Thanks,
Andrew Pinski