On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 04:10:42PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> "David O'Brien" wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 03:55:36PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > Could you please just commit this on the vendor branch if it is the
> > > vendor fix for now.  Since the next vendor import will contain the
> > > fix you don't need to worry about maintaining the local patch so
> > > committing it onto the vendor branch is ok.
> > 
> > Doing this screws up diffs to vendor source as there won't be a tag that
> > corisponds with this across all files.  For small contribed things that
> > is OK.  But when doing large ones it the following import+merge becomes
> > harder.
> 
> While that is true, it usually isn't all that big a deal if you are careful
> and keep track of what you've done.  It is certainly better than causing
> the file to leave the vendor branch for something you *know* is now in the
> vendor tree.  And I think its better than leaving a known 'compiler crash'
> case there to bite developers.

I'm hoping for another 3.2.1 import soon.  I raised some hell on the GCC
lists last week about the quality of 3.2.1; and actually got some Athlon
and p4 optimization PR's taken care of.

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