From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
To: dan@cgsoftware.com
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS policy question
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 08:38:00 -0000
Message-id: <10109161544.AA05925@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00627.html

    After all, anyone with enough experience to be maintaining a port, it's 
    likely they know enough to be able to make changes to other parts of the 
    compiler that affect their platform.

Somewhat.  But one point of a reviewer is to look at a change and see if
it is "reasonable".  You have to have a global knowlege of the compiler
to do that if the change is in a common area.  Local knowlege of that area
isn't enough since the issue may be that the proper place for the change
is elsewhere.  It is possible to do a port by just doing a very small number
(or even no) changes to the rest of the compiler, so there's no reason to
assume that a port maintainer would had gained such expertese.