On Monday 16 April 2012 14:11:08 Roland McGrath wrote:
> > i couldn't tell if people would be ok merging code that is known to be
> > broken.
> 
> Since it's not regressing the status quo, it's not really a problem.
> 
> > i could break up this commit into multiple ones (original code + mangling
> > afterwards), but really none of it would be usable until all of it was
> > merged.
> 
> Sure.  We just want to be able to distinguish old code from new changes
> easily.

np.  not sure when i'll get to it exactly since this ia64 thing is more just 
because i thought it'd be fun rather than actually needing it ;).
-mike