From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 21 02:46:40 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B6791065672 for ; Fri, 21 May 2010 02:46:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx22.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BAB68FC15 for ; Fri, 21 May 2010 02:46:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 10628 invoked by uid 399); 21 May 2010 02:46:39 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.145?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 21 May 2010 02:46:39 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4BF5F40D.2010602@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 19:46:37 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "M. Warner Losh" References: <20100519071630.GA77151@freebsd.org> <201005190904.22248.jhb@freebsd.org> <4BF407EF.7010508@FreeBSD.org> <20100520.185728.29593248011634036.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20100520.185728.29593248011634036.imp@bsdimp.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for review: build infrastructure for Clang X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 02:46:40 -0000 On 5/20/2010 5:57 PM, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message:<4BF407EF.7010508@FreeBSD.org> > Doug Barton writes: > : ... which leads to hopefully my last suggestion, if there is _any_ > : chance that it would be useful to have tblgen installed then providing > : a knob to do so (defaulting to off of course) is cheap, and will > : prevent you having to rework the code later when someone requests it > : (and believe me, someone will). :) > > Knobs are too cheap. We're starting to accumulate rather a lot of > them for trivial things... We need to think about a better way to do > subsetting... EPONTIFICATING. I would not want to stand in the way of people doing real work while we wait for the next great thing. :) Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/