On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:04 AM, FX <fxcoud...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Well, it regresses against 4.8, so it still is a P1 regression. >> >> Does anyone care? > > > Well, you’re one of the maintainers of libsanitizer for GCC, so if you do not > care about regressions in your code, it makes little sense for GCC (the whole > project) to keep libsanitizer. > > I’ve posted this regression a month ago, it was not addressed. I’m not sure > under what specific arrangement libsanitizer was added to GCC, but in general > there is a responsibility of maintainers not to break bootstrap in their > code. Yes, it’s a cost, and if you are not willing to do it, why did you > contribute in the first place? > > Or is it a “hit and run” approach to maintainership?
I believe this is a case where the GCC project gets more benefit from libsanitizer than libsanitizer gets from being part of the GCC project. We should work with the libsanitizer developers to make this work, not just push everything back on them. Ian
