[v3] debug macro unifcation
Mark Mitchell
mark@codesourcery.com
Sat Sep 9 03:48:00 GMT 2006
Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
>> Is there a reason why you are applying this during regression only
>> fixes? We have been release branch rules for about a month or longer
>> now and libstdc++ still is getting changes which seems a little big for
>> a release branch.
>
> There is no release branch.
>
> pb_ds is new code, and I found errors in
> the debug parts of it. I don't want to have a release of new code
> that has known API issues, and then have to support it. The patch was
> larger than I expected but mostly mechanical, and to extensions which
> have historically been allowed more leeway.
For the record, I am not uncomfortable with these changes. Maintainers
need and deserve the flexibility to make their own calls on close cases.
Of course, as we move closer to the release, I do expect all
maintainers to hew more and more strictly to the regression-only policy.
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Mark Mitchell
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