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From: Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>, Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.COM>
Cc: Bernd Schmidt <bernds@redhat.com>,
	David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>,
	"gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org" <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>,
	"gcc@gcc.gnu.org" <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Loop unroll fixes
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 17:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <115120000.1000772522@warlock.codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010917151142.A30386@redhat.com>

--On Monday, September 17, 2001 03:11:42 PM -0700 Richard Henderson 
<rth@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 02:24:32PM -0700, Joe Buck wrote:
>> So how about requiring such documentation as part of the patch?
>
> Fine by me.

Me, too.  I think everyone should play by the same rules, even those
of us with global write privileges.

> In addition, it aids debugging future problems as well.
>
> Suppose the patch is wrong in some way that causes it to fail for
> some obscure target under some conditions.  Suppose this is not
> discovered for a year.  If the patch is well documented, one can
> quickly recall what the original problem was, as opposed to either
> (1) spending lots of time re-examining the original bug, or
> (2) guessing the that the old patch was wrong and reverting it.
>
> Both (1) and (2) have happened many times in gcc history.

Yes.

-- 
Mark Mitchell                mark@codesourcery.com
CodeSourcery, LLC            http://www.codesourcery.com

  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-17 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200109142021.QAA26236@makai.watson.ibm.com>
2001-09-15  8:57 ` Bernd Schmidt
2001-09-17 13:16   ` Richard Henderson
2001-09-17 14:24     ` Joe Buck
2001-09-17 15:11       ` Richard Henderson
2001-09-17 17:22         ` Mark Mitchell [this message]
2001-09-18  2:19         ` Joseph S. Myers
2001-10-10  1:12 Wolfgang Bangerth
2001-10-10  1:16 ` Mark Mitchell
2001-10-10  5:14   ` Franz Sirl
2001-10-10 11:08     ` Mark Mitchell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-09-18 17:36 Richard Kenner
2001-09-18 11:54 mike stump
2001-09-18 12:34 ` Joseph S. Myers
2001-09-19 11:28   ` Joe Buck
2001-09-24  9:31     ` law
2001-09-18 10:47 Benjamin Kosnik
2001-09-18  4:16 Richard Kenner
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109141957550.29416-100000@host140.cambridge.redhat.com>
2001-09-14 14:36 ` David Edelsohn
2001-09-13 16:35 Zoltan Hidvegi
2001-09-13 18:58 ` David Edelsohn
2001-09-13 23:50   ` Jim Wilson
2001-09-14  6:55     ` Daniel Berlin
2001-09-14 12:15       ` Joseph S. Myers
2001-09-14 16:45       ` Jim Wilson
2001-09-14 20:11         ` David Edelsohn
2001-09-14 22:23           ` Jim Wilson
2001-09-15  2:42           ` Bernd Schmidt
2001-09-14 21:16         ` Daniel Berlin
2001-09-14  9:41     ` David Edelsohn
2001-09-14 10:46       ` Bernd Schmidt
2001-09-14 11:47         ` David Edelsohn
2001-09-14 17:54       ` Jim Wilson
2001-09-14 18:35         ` David Edelsohn
2001-09-14 19:56           ` Jim Wilson
2001-09-15  2:56         ` Joseph S. Myers
2001-10-04  6:46 ` Franz Sirl
2001-10-04  7:40   ` Mark Mitchell
2001-10-04 20:46   ` Jim Wilson
2001-10-04 20:51     ` Mark Mitchell
2001-10-04 23:10       ` Zoltan Hidvegi
2001-10-10  0:05         ` Mark Mitchell

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