From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14868 invoked by alias); 17 Jan 2004 18:09:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 14822 invoked from network); 17 Jan 2004 18:09:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lon-mail-1.gradwell.net) (193.111.201.125) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Jan 2004 18:09:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 24051 invoked from network); 17 Jan 2004 18:09:51 -0000 Received: from digraph.polyomino.org.uk (postmaster%pop3.polyomino.org.uk@81.187.227.50) by lon-mail-1.gradwell.net with SMTP; 17 Jan 2004 18:09:51 -0000 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by digraph.polyomino.org.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AhutK-0006A5-OT; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 18:09:50 +0000 Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 18:09:00 -0000 From: "Joseph S. Myers" X-X-Sender: jsm28@digraph.polyomino.org.uk To: Scott Robert Ladd cc: Robert Dewar , gcc mailing list Subject: Re: [RFC] Contributing tree-ssa to mainline In-Reply-To: <40097783.3020703@coyotegulch.com> Message-ID: References: <1074298740.3147.79.camel@frodo.toronto.redhat.com> <200401170151.i0H1pjEn020723@caip.rutgers.edu> <1074310588.3147.153.camel@frodo.toronto.redhat.com> <200401171704.i0HH4WWn015521@caip.rutgers.edu> <40096DA9.9010905@coyotegulch.com> <400972E0.5010800@gnat.com> <40097783.3020703@coyotegulch.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg01093.txt.bz2 On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Scott Robert Ladd wrote: > GCC, however, is a "free" project; I doubt anyone could dictate > (successfully) that any patch include appropriate documentation, for > example. And while you and I may recognize the value fo documenting our > work, I find many programmers would rather code than comment. We do dictate this. Patches lacking documentation or testcases will be rejected if I notice them. Kenner sometimes complains about code lacking sufficient comments. (One thing tree-ssa adds is testsuite infrastructure for testing that particular passes do particular optimisations - meaning that once tree-ssa goes in, many optimisation patches which formerly couldn't have had testcases will now require them.) -- Joseph S. Myers jsm@polyomino.org.uk