Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 16:58:15 -0800 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc in -current still broken Message-ID: <199803290058.QAA11826@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 29 Mar 1998 09:22:10 %2B0930." <19980329092210.19096@freebie.lemis.com>
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> > The assembler is too critical of a component to make untested > > commits. If I broke it badly enough, it would be impossible for > > people to recover except by a full reinstall. > > How come? You can keep a copy, or restore it from tape. It's not > like a broken libc. But your libc would have been built with the broken assembler. It and everything else you'd just installed could _all_ be broken. It's admittedly unlikely that the bug would be so subtle that you wouldn't notice it in a make world. On the other hand, it's not going to hurt to wait a few more hours until the thing has been tested a little more. People who are in a rush can use the patch, which I've posted twice to -current. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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