From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30379 invoked by alias); 5 Apr 2011 18:10:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 30369 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Apr 2011 18:10:58 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RFC_ABUSE_POST,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from qmta15.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (HELO qmta15.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net) (76.96.59.228) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:10:54 +0000 Received: from omta21.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.72]) by qmta15.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id TtS51g0041ZXKqc5FuAueP; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:10:54 +0000 Received: from up.mrs.kithrup.com ([24.4.193.8]) by omta21.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id TuAs1g00K0BKwT43huAtwq; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:10:54 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] cleanup gcse.c:canon_modify_mem_list Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Mike Stump In-Reply-To: <1302008146.25036.15.camel@e102346-lin.cambridge.arm.com> Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:10:00 -0000 Cc: Nathan Froyd , Jeff Law , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <7F666054-3383-4100-85CA-5652CBE1333C@comcast.net> References: <20110404014451.GA16239@nightcrawler> <4D9A0765.6020901@redhat.com> <20110405114440.GE23480@codesourcery.com> <1302006159.25036.12.camel@e102346-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <20110405123041.GG23480@codesourcery.com> <1302008146.25036.15.camel@e102346-lin.cambridge.arm.com> To: Richard Earnshaw X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2011-04/txt/msg00386.txt.bz2 On Apr 5, 2011, at 5:55 AM, Richard Earnshaw wrote: > IMO, rototils are generally pointless. As a counter point, I like polish and style, in addition to beauty and flex= ibility. I'd rather see more style cleanups, more polish cleanups and more= beautiful cleanups. I'd like to see more, not less people doing that work= . I'd like to see more maintainership status give out on that basis. I li= ke rototils. This is the mechanism by which we give a uniformity to the co= de, make it predictable, easier to work, easier to copy from.