Apple specific options: patch to include them in the current release gcc?

Dale Johannesen dalej@apple.com
Fri Jan 28 05:50:00 GMT 2005


On Jan 27, 2005, at 8:22 PM, Matt Austern wrote:
>  -  Patches that we haven't even bothered to submit because we're 
> pretty sure they'd be rejected.  (Example: alternate asm syntax that's 
> more compatible with CodeWarrior and Visual C++.)

Actually, Stan submitted this and it was firmly rejected.  A better 
example is some common-code
optimizer tweaks that are not applicable or negative for other targets. 
  These can sometimes be
gotten into mainline by adding new macros, but people are skeptical of 
such changes, rightly so.



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