On Wed, 9 Jan 2019, Paul Koning wrote: > Is there, or should there be, a distinction between primary and > non-primary platforms? While platform bugs typically require fixes in > platform-specific code, I would think we would want to stay away from > bugfixes in minor platforms during stage 4. The wording seems to say > that I could fix wrong-code bugs in pdp11 during stage 4; I have been > assuming I should not do that. Is this something that should be > explicitly stated?
In target-specific code for a minor target you can more or less do as you want - but the decision on when to branch won't take account of what you're doing for a minor target, so any major work runs the risk of the branch happening at an unstable point in the middle of that work. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
