patch rereview requested for PRs 6860, 10467 and 11741

Gabriel Dos Reis gdr@integrable-solutions.net
Sun Sep 21 18:14:00 GMT 2003


Roger Sayle <roger@eyesopen.com> writes:

| > No, consider what your line of rhetoric may lead to:
| >
| >    If someone with RTH's history of regression fixing patches, GCC design
| >    and code improvements can't reject a patch his knowledge of the
| >    compiler, what's the world coming to?
| >
| > Sure, it sounds nasty.  Doesn't it?
| 
| As I said above, if I agree without comment to 98% of RTH's reviews,
| does that mean I'm unworthy to question his judgement every once in
| a while.

certainly not; but that is irrevelant because that is not what I'm
disagreeing with.

| Or put another way, If someone with RTH's history of regression fixing
| patches, GCC design and code improvements can't come up with a failing
| test case, isn't that an incredibly strong argument that the patch is
| sound?

No. Not necessarily.  RTH didn't say it can't come up with a testcase
because of purely technical reasons. 

-- Gaby



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