Unreviewed patch

Thu Jun 12 15:42:00 GMT 2003

On 2003年6月12日, Anthony Green wrote:
>> I believe we've agreed in the past that port maintainers can make
>> port-specific libffi changes. So I think you can check in your fix
>> that basis.
> The situation is a little frustrating because it's not made explicit in
> the MAINTAINERS file. I once tried to clear this up with the SC through
> one of its members, but got no reply.

That's unfortunate.
> My suggestion is that the following people should be able to approve
> libffi changes:
>> 0. Global maintainers
> 1. GCC port maintainers, since many times they will be the only ones who
> understand the asm code.
> 2. Tromey, as the maintainer of libgcj, since this is an important part
> of it.
> 3. Me, as the original author.
> BTW - I think we should also add MAINTAINERS entries for zlib, boehm-gc
> and fastjar.

Would you mind suggesting appropriate additions to the MAINTAINERS file?
I'll happily forward them to the SC and make sure to follow it.
On 2003年6月12日, Joern Rennecke wrote:
> I'm somewhat unsure about the status of libffi. On the one
> hand it is a separate project, and as such it appears that only
> Anthony Green can approve patches.
> On the other hand the libffi home page says 'libffi is now largely
> maintained as part of GCC.' , and if it is actually maintained as
> part of GCC, that would mean that global and target port maintainers
> of gcc can approve patches.

The point is, is it largely maintained as part of GCC, or is it now
part of GCC (like, for example, libstdc++ and libgcj which became
fully integrated)?
Gerald
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