From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18879 invoked by alias); 2 Dec 2007 11:48:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 18871 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Dec 2007 11:48:24 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from anyanka.rfc1149.net (HELO mail2.rfc1149.net) (81.56.47.149) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 02 Dec 2007 11:48:17 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail2.rfc1149.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 808A7C405C; Sun, 2 Dec 2007 12:48:12 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail2.rfc1149.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id mT-62a4+T4iu; Sun, 2 Dec 2007 12:48:12 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail2.rfc1149.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 59F75C405E; Sun, 2 Dec 2007 12:48:12 +0100 (CET) To: Eric Botcazou Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages References: <2007-12-02-11-05-39+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net> <200712021151.08971.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> <2007-12-02-12-14-00+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net> <200712021232.25974.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 11:48:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <200712021232.25974.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> (Eric Botcazou's message of "Sun\, 2 Dec 2007 12\:32\:25 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Samuel Tardieu Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-WWW: http://www.rfc1149.net/sam X-Jabber: (see http://www.jabber.org/) X-OpenPGP-Fingerprint: 79C0 AE3C CEA8 F17B 0EF1 45A5 F133 2241 1B80 ADE6 (see http://www.gnupg.org/) Message-Id: <2007-12-02-12-48-12+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net> Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2007-12/txt/msg00025.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Eric" == Eric Botcazou writes: >> Without digging in the mailing-list archives to see why you made >> the change, if something new breaks on a STABS platform I will have >> no hint that this change was in any way related to STABS. Eric> But this change has nothing to do with STABS. :-) Sure, but as you explained yourself in the message I cited, the reason to do this change was because of a problem in STABS info generation :) Eric> Well, any changes in the compiler can potentially introduce bugs Eric> elsewhere and I suppose that you aren't proposing to mention all Eric> the known dependencies in the commit message. Of course not, but when such a dependency is the reason you make a change in the first place, I think it ought to be mentionned. If the chance caused a regression on an obscure platform using some barely used debugging format, this could give a hint of where to look (STABS for example) to see how it is done there and if bogus assumptions were made about the previous behaviour. Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@rfc1149.net -- http://www.rfc1149.net/