On 09/05/2012 12:59 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
Regarding the patch ordering you list, note that earlier patches may not be reviewable without later ones (specifically, code changes can only be reviewed given documentation and testcases - in some cases documentation might be external, but it does need to be pointed to from the GCC manuals in that case, and it does need to make interactions with existing language features precise at the level of standards text).
Joseph,
Just an FYI, I asked Balaji to do his best to break things down into more managable hunks of code to make review easier. In cases where we need a later patch (testcodes, docs, etc) we'll deal with the dependencies.
WRT doc standards precision -- agreed. One of the major problems with the early language extensions was the lack of precision in their documentation. I don't think this is going to be a big problem for Cilk+, but only time will tell.
Jeff
