Comments on Patching GCC

[Devang Patel]

On Sep 24, 2004, at 11:23 AM, Andrew Pinski wrote:

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> On Sep 24, 2004, at 2:16 PM, Caroline Tice wrote:
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>>
>> In general I think having a better way to track submitted patches so 
>> that they don't get lost is
>> a very good idea.  My one concern about attaching it to Bugzilla is: 
>> What if someone wants to
>> submit a patch for a (new) feature or extension, rather than a bug?  
>> Is Bugzilla supposed to be used
>> to track new feature development as well as existing bugs?  (I really 
>> don't know; I'm just asking).
>
> Yes Bugzilla is used to keep track of feature development and other
> enhancements like optimization passes

I am not sure this is true in reality. Look at the last 100 patches 
posted on gcc-patch. How many of them has bugzilla reference ?

http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html#patches does not ask bugzilla 
reference for new features.

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Devang