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Date:      Tue, 8 Oct 2002 17:45:58 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Alexander Kabaev <ak03@gte.com>, current@FreeBSD.org, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: i386 tinderbox failure
Message-ID:  <20021009004558.GA15075@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021008231042.247562A88D@canning.wemm.org>
References:  <20021008224042.GA13880@dragon.nuxi.com> <20021008231042.247562A88D@canning.wemm.org>

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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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