Re: Fwd: DEC Extension Patches: Structure, Union, and Map

[Paul Richard Thomas <paul.richard.thomas@gmail.com>]

Dear Fritz,

The patch is very good and can be committed to 7.0.0, as soon as it is
open. In fact, you have tidied up one or two of the nastier looking
parts of existing code to good advantage.

Many thanks for doing this work.

Paul


On 6 March 2016 at 13:17, Paul Richard Thomas
<paul.richard.thomas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Fritz,
>
> I have reconstituted your patch. It applies cleanly to trunk and
> bootstraps and regtests OK on FC21/x86_64. So far so good!
>
> I will start the review tomorrow evening, with a view to reporting
> back on Tuesday or Wednesday.
>
> With best regards
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> On 2 March 2016 at 07:52, Paul Richard Thomas
> <paul.richard.thomas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear Fritz and Steve,
>>
>> I am pleased to hear that you have recovered from your period of ill
>> health - welcome back!
>>
>> Indeed, I agree with Steve that in stage 4 we should not commit these
>> patches. I will undertake to review them in the next few days and I
>> suggest, Fritz, that you keep the bit-rot at bay until 7.0.0 hits the
>> street. At least the bit-rot will or should be negligible in stage 4
>> :-)
>>
>> Many thanks for working on these DEC extensions. I suggest that during
>> the wait period you submit the other patches for review. As you get
>> each of them ready to be committed to 7.0.0, I think that a final,
>> formal review would be in order.
>>
>> With best regards
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> On 2 March 2016 at 01:25, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 04:07:25PM -0500, Fritz Reese wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The first six months went by awaiting legal confirmation of my
>>>> copyright assignment, since my patches were nontrivial. After a
>>>> succesful copyright agreement with the FSF the second six months went
>>>> by attempting the rebase. With the fairly significant architectural
>>>> changes from gcc-4.8 to gcc-5, this was more time-consuming than
>>>> originally expected. Finally, the last six months I fell ill and was
>>>> unable to perform any work whatsoever. Now I have fully recovered and
>>>> have finished up rebasing my first patch on the gcc development trunk
>>>> which introduces the STRUCTURE, UNION, and MAP constructs.
>>>
>>> Fritz,
>>>
>>> Thanks for working on this and the follow-up.  Sorry to
>>> hear about your spell of ill health.  gcc trunk is in
>>> stage 4 development, which is a regression fixes only
>>> stage in preparation for the gcc 6.1 release.  If history
>>> holds, 6.1 will be out in a month or two.  After 6.1 is
>>> out, we can work on integrating your patches.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Steve
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.
>>
>> Albert Einstein
>
>
>
> --
> The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.
>
> Albert Einstein



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