> Em 22 de dez de 2015, às 14:22, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pi...@linaro.org> > escreveu: > >> On Mon, 21 Dec 2015, Jim Wilson wrote: >> >> I tracked the bulk of the patch back to April 2011, though some new >> LTO related testsuite changes date back to January 2011. The initial >> patch submission for the bulk of the patch appears to be >> https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2011-04/msg00275.html >> It is a large patch, and HJ had to update it twice in the next 24 >> hours to fix problems with it. The size would have discouraged an >> immediate review. And the fact that it was updated twice in 24 hours >> after posting would have discouraged reviewers even more. > > Multiple revisions in a few days isn't uncommon. But 5 years have > passed at this point. > >> People were perhaps waiting for the final version of the patch before >> trying to review it, and then accidentally forgot about it along the >> way. I don't see any discussion of the patch at the time. And I >> haven't seen any attempt to resubmit it, though I could have missed >> something. >> >> I see that the issue was discussed earlier in December 2010. HJ made >> a proposal for a fix, and there was feedback at that time. >> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2010-12/msg00229.html >> it looks like there were 3 separate related threads which may have >> confused the issue a bit. >> https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2010-12/msg00012.html >> https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2010-12/msg00182.html >> https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2010-12/msg00231.html >> >> Anyways, the size of the patch suggests using caution and waiting for >> upstream review. Though I did find a reference that suggests Fedora >> is using it >> >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/scm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20130513/1022584.html >> which suggests that it may be well tested. This was done by Nick >> Clifton, who is one of the binutils maintainers, so maybe we just need >> someone to ask about the status of the patch on the binutils mailing >> list to remind people that it still needs to be reviewed for the >> upstream FSF binutils tree. > > Could you (i.e. someone in the toolchain team) take care of this?
I will sort this out when I get back from holidays. > > > Nicolas _______________________________________________ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org https://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
