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Re: Linux vs. libio
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Linux vs. libio
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at cygnus dot co dot uk>
- Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 22:26:25 +0000
- CC: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
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Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>
> > or (b) is marked
> > very clearly as a local/temporary kludge.
> This is the kind of stuff that belongs in a local tree, not the GCC sources.
Or a branch? That would keep it out of the reach of normal users using the
CVS tree, even with -fnew-abi, while still permitting collaboration - which
is presumably the reason Mark wants it checked in to the gcc repository.
It's a bit more effort to merge the branch back in, but it can be done
discretely, without breaking anything.
Jifl