On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:23 AM, Steven Bosscher <stevenb....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Bernd Schmidt <ber...@codesourcery.com> wrote: >> On 04/05/2011 08:26 AM, Steven Bosscher wrote: >>> I don't understand, really, why it's such a big deal to revert a patch >>> quickly if it broke something. >> >> To answer this as well, firstly a proposal that comes with a request to >> revert the wrong patch discredits itself. > > Agreed. Note that in this particular case (and in most cases I can > remember) the commit that broke things was identified correctly. This > is what HJ's autotester is really good at. > >> Breaking stuff by accident is a fact of life with gcc. > > Definitely agreed. See PR48441. >
There is another bootstrap failure: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48148 detected by my autotester. Since it only affects very few people, reverting it may not be the best course. But breaking trunk for most of developers for 3 days isn't a very good idea. -- H.J.
