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Re: Linux vs. libio
- To: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Subject: Re: Linux vs. libio
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 08:07:15 -0700
- cc: mark at codesourcery dot com, drepper at gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199912201435.PAA01388@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de>you write:
> It seems there is some confusion about the scope of what Mark attempts
> to do.
>
> He is working, in private, on implementing the new C++ ABI. Because he
> is lacking an IA64 machine, he uses his private ia32 machine to do so.
I understand this.
> To get it working at all, he must change libio, and he wants to avoid
> rebuilding his Linux distribution to do so. I cannot find anything
> unwise here.
He's more than welcome to do this on his local box. But it's not something
that belongs in our source tree.
> Please, can we leave the decision what to work on to the individual
> developer, and only judge the quality of the work when we see actual
> patches?
It's not an issue of quality, but of what belongs in our source tree. I
still see no reason for this code to go in our source tree.
jeff