On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 23:45:21 +0200 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Thursday 06 July 2006 23:23, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > No, Diego. The argument is that you're coming up with a horrible and | > unnecessary hack where there are far cleaner alternatives, and that | > you're blindly sticking to it and trying to throw off any | > objections by devious means because you don't want to scrap said | > hack after all the misguided effort you've spent on it. However, | > since you seem to be incapable of admitting the gaping flaws in | > your own work, I'm asking for someone else to point this out to you | > in a formal manner rather than watch this thread go on for even | > longer. | | Wait, isn't that what _you_ usually do? Like climbing up on mirrors | when you misunderstood something and blamed someone for an error that | was never made, trying to find another glitch in the procedure to | back it up?
Please try to keep this technical, even if your co-developers can't... | I'm entirely ready to scrap what I have here if I find _valid reasons | to_. What's wrong with the ones you've been given so far? I'll summarise the ones I consider important: * it's relying upon non-guaranteed GCC internals. * it's relying upon GCC knowing the state of the underlying system, which fails at least for VIS. * it's removing the ability to get access to the data at the metadata phase, leading to what you yourself called a "regression". * it's forcing users to use insane CFLAGS hacks, which we've spent years telling them not to do and for good reason, to get back to previous behaviour. * a large part of the justification is based upon a misunderstanding of how cross compilation should be done. The correct way around this problem was already posted to the thread by solar. * it's removing transparency and simplicity and replacing them with obfuscation and complexity. * it's taking a variable with a well defined purpose and abusing it for something unrelated. Will that lot do or would you like some more? -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
