Andrew Stubbs <a...@codesourcery.com> wrote: > CS has this patch in SG++: > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-12/msg00199.html > > This patch improves code size in a useful, target independent way, but > was not committed upstream. It's not clear why. Since the patch does not > belong to CodeSourcery, we can't upstream it ourselves either.
Steven asked: "What do you folks think of this patch?" and the only answer was by Richi: "I think it's reasonable." So I'm not sure why it didn't go in. Maybe we should just ping Steven? > Is that patch a suitable candidate for Linaro GCC? > > It is not upstreamable due to copyright issues, but we have a policy > that we can keep such patches, if we wish. What copyright issues? Steven ought to have an assignment in place ... > The principle of not letting Linaro and SG++ diverge too far also > suggests keeping it. > > Any thoughts? If nobody objects soon I shall merge it in. Since there don't appear to be any fundamental objections to inclusion of the patch into mainline, and since the patch doesn't introduce any user-visible feature (like syntax extensions or command line options) that could cause build breaks for users if it were to go away after all, I would say this patch is fine for us ... Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards Ulrich Weigand -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand | Phone: +49-7031/16-3727 STSM, GNU compiler and toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell/B.E. IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter | Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen | Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 _______________________________________________ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
