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Re: GCC maintainer volunteer?


On 21 February 2013 10:38, NightStrike wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 3:42 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Feb 21 21:33, JonY wrote:
>>> On 2/21/2013 20:40, NightStrike wrote:
>>> >> I've started looking at the patches, they definitely aren't trivial.
>>> >> I'll probably be releasing it as experimental.
>>> >
>>> > There are local cygwin patches to gcc?
>>> >
>>>
>>> Yes, about 100KB of it. I confess I don't know what most of is for, my
>>> understanding of the gcc internals are limited.
>>
>> I assume some (or all) of them are already upstream, but they were not
>> backported into the 4.5.x branch.  It might be a good idea to start out
>> with a clean upstream build and then look into the patches if they still
>> make some sense.
>
> Are they in 4.6?  If so, why not just start fresh and clean with a 4.6
> 'chain that needs zero patching?

I believe Corinna means going to later version of GCC, preferably
straight to 4.7 would be great.

Chris

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