On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:38 AM, Paolo Carlini <paolo.carl...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 02/01/2010 01:26 AM, Timothy Madden wrote: [...] > As I see the issue, you should first check over the next months that the > feature is not deprecated by ISO. I know, I tried to talk about it on std.c++. I am afraid I can not see a consensus in the end, still I would not say the committee will just remove it. They were strongly against deprecation in 2003.
> Then start learning about the > internals of GCC and eventually propose a detailed plan explaining how > you want to attack the problem, because before that it's extremely > unlikely that the C++ front-end maintainers could even consider > reviewing patches from a novice for such an hard to implement feature. Yes it is. I wish there were a nice and easy way about it, but an attempt at export is something quite big ... > That said, if you *really* plan contributing to GCC, maybe outside > export first (which seems a terribly good idea to me) first and > foremost, read the relevant web page: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html > > and start immediately the paperwork for the Copyright assignment, > because it takes time. I see that what I need is an assignment for all future changes. If my employer is not involved with any contributions of mine, the employer disclaimer is not needed, right ? It is going to be a while until I will be able to submit any kind of patch; should I start with the paperwork ? Thank you, Timothy Madden
