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From: Steven Bosscher <stevenb.gcc@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
Cc: Basile STARYNKEVITCH <basile@starynkevitch.net>,
	GCC Mailing List <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: increasing the number of GCC reviewers
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:45:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <571f6b510906100045p208c801bo7e1b74ca9039a8cd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A2EB821.8050806@redhat.com>

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Andrew Haley<aph@redhat.com> wrote:
>> This is precisely my point. It should be perfectly acceptable that some
>> people be authorized to approve some few patches without understanding
>> the whole of GCC, and even without knowing all of it.
>
> GCC isn't really like that.  Changes in one part can affect things much
> later on, and you really have to know why.  That doesn't mean you have
> to understand all of the compiler, but you need to have a lot of
> knowledge.

This is a problem with GCC's lack of modularity, not with Basile's
point of view.

Ciao!
Steven

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-10  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-09 15:52 Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2009-06-09 16:45 ` Andrew Haley
2009-06-09 17:17   ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2009-06-09 17:20     ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2009-06-09 17:31     ` Andrew Haley
2009-06-09 17:55       ` Adam Nemet
2009-06-09 18:01         ` Andrew Haley
2009-06-10  0:14           ` Ben Elliston
2009-06-10  2:05             ` Dave Korn
2009-06-09 19:19         ` Joe Buck
2009-06-09 18:10       ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-06-09 18:10       ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2009-06-09 18:21         ` Richard Guenther
2009-06-09 18:42         ` Andrew Haley
2009-06-09 19:13           ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2009-06-09 19:29             ` Andrew Haley
2009-06-10  7:45               ` Steven Bosscher [this message]
2009-06-10 12:15                 ` Richard Kenner
2009-06-10 12:47                   ` Joseph S. Myers
2009-06-10 18:12                   ` Diego Novillo
2009-06-09 20:22             ` Diego Novillo
2009-06-09 21:10               ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2009-06-09 21:36             ` Tom Tromey
2009-06-10  0:45             ` Ben Elliston
2009-06-09 21:37 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-06-10  0:51   ` Joseph S. Myers
2009-06-10  1:04     ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-06-10  1:36     ` Tom Tromey
2009-06-10  2:40     ` Daniel Berlin
2009-06-10 11:10       ` Joseph S. Myers
2009-06-10 14:38         ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-06-10 15:00           ` Joseph S. Myers
2009-06-10 14:35     ` Weddington, Eric
2009-06-10 14:52       ` Joseph S. Myers
2009-06-10 15:47         ` Weddington, Eric

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