Re: C++ patches

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

On 07/19/2015 09:19 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> Hi Pedro,
> 
> You mentionned earlier (and on the cxx-conversion wiki page) that
> you'd like people to pick up patches from your C++ branch and
> format/add changelog/post them. I would like to do that, in order to
> make the C++ transition progress.

That'd be fantastic!

> I would naturally start with the
> ptrace refactor patches at the base. However, it seems like that was
> done recently. 

Yeah, I fixed some enum hacks (wrote the "safe enum flags"
patch at the top of the branch) and cleaned up a few other patches,
but the ptrace ones were the only ones that I finished completely
enough to post.

> I want to make sure I don't pull the carpet from
> beneath your feet by posting them. Is it a good time to start doing
> that ?

Absolutely.

IIRC, the only one that I wanted to revisit was the
"VEC don't write 0 to pointer" one -- I don't recall why I needed
that in the first place.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves