Subject: Re: crunchgen changes to use symbol renaming instead of symbolhiding
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
From: James Chacon <jchacon@genuity.net>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 01/23/2003 10:27:22
What? So large? I was able to read the entire diff set in a reasonable amount
of time and easily understand what it's doing.

This is not a large change and is mostly self contained in 1 new routine...

James

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>In article <200301222019.PAA17332@gtei.net>
>jchacon@genuity.net wrote:
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>> Nothing should stop adding patches locally to our binutils. Thats part
>> of the point of importing them in. It was getting the patches back to the
>> maintainers that was the sticking point in the past but that should mostly
>> be moot now with a designated point of contact.
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>If the patch is a trivial fix, it could be applied to our tree first.
>But in this case, changes are so large (adding new flags/functions)
>that it would cause compatibility problem and it would also make it
>harder to import newer binutils release tree in the future.
>We had many "significant divergence" in doc/3RDPARTY.
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>Izumi Tsutsui
>tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp
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