From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16706 invoked by alias); 16 Jun 2005 15:49:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact sid-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: sid-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 16667 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Jun 2005 15:49:02 -0000 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:49:02 +0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j5GFmuWl030572; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:49:01 -0400 Received: from pobox.toronto.redhat.com (pobox.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.4]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j5GFmuu27263; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:48:56 -0400 Received: from touchme.toronto.redhat.com (IDENT:postfix@touchme.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.9]) by pobox.toronto.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j5GFmtjJ017248; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:48:55 -0400 Received: from toenail.toronto.redhat.com (toenail.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.211]) by touchme.toronto.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C69A3800108; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:48:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from toenail.toronto.redhat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by toenail.toronto.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.12.5) with ESMTP id j5GFmtQC030349; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:48:55 -0400 Received: (from fche@localhost) by toenail.toronto.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j5GFmtM8030348; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:48:55 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:49:00 -0000 From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" To: Doug Evans Cc: cgen@sources.redhat.com, sid@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC] New cpu --- Morpho ms1 Message-ID: <20050616154855.GF27067@redhat.com> References: <42A752B2.8090407@rogers.com> <20050613145452.GE18930@redhat.com> <42B09F6F.7020302@redhat.com> <17072.41406.147361.75051@casey.transmeta.com> <20050616152212.GC27067@redhat.com> <17073.40390.435362.400645@casey.transmeta.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="HeFlAV5LIbMFYYuh" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17073.40390.435362.400645@casey.transmeta.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SW-Source: 2005-q2/txt/msg00041.txt.bz2 --HeFlAV5LIbMFYYuh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 750 Hi - On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 08:41:58AM -0700, Doug Evans wrote: > [...] > - adding specialized code can be "that bad" because without adequate > commenting like "do as I say, not as I do", more and more such code > creeps in over time > - imagine if there's 20 different apps (as in (eq? APPLICATION mumble)) > all with their own little tweaks to rtl-c.scm >=20 > Remove the appearance of the text "SID" from rtl-c.scm and parameterize > the feature on something generic and I'd be happier. These are reasonable concerns in the abstract. Let's not insist on extra maintenance work on this old code until there is an indication that another of those 20 different apps shows up, or that gdb/sim will model delayed writes too. =20 - FChE --HeFlAV5LIbMFYYuh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline Content-length: 189 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCsZ9nVZbdDOm/ZT0RAq7uAJ4njZ80wGDLDP0Ol6EoWwNAVqV7GQCfTqgo y0AY6tSC4CI7UgVcTPX9abU= =H5jy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HeFlAV5LIbMFYYuh--