Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 24 November 2012 00:40, Nathan Ridge wrote: > > I am regular reader of several mailing lists, some of which (such as this > one) require plain text, and some (like cdt-dev) which allow rich text. > > My experience has been that the formatting of messages on plain-text > lists is consistent acros

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Diego Novillo writes: > Sure. First I wanted to find out whether this requirement is just a > technical limitation with our mailing list software. It is not a technical limitation. We explicitly reject HTML e-mail. We could accept it. As Jonathan pointed out, accepting HTML e-mail and then d

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Robert Dewar
2) The fact that Android refuses to provide a non-HTML e-mail capability is ridiculous but does not seem to me to be a reason for us to change our policy. Surely there are altenrative email client for Android that have plain text capability???

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Daniel Berlin
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Diego Novillo writes: > >> Sure. First I wanted to find out whether this requirement is just a >> technical limitation with our mailing list software. > > It is not a technical limitation. We explicitly reject HTML e-mail. We > could

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Daniel Berlin
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Robert Dewar wrote: > >> 2) The fact that Android refuses to provide a non-HTML e-mail capability >> is ridiculous but does not seem to me to be a reason for us to change >> our policy. > > > Surely there are altenrative email client for Android that have plain >

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Robert Dewar
On 11/24/2012 12:59 PM, Daniel Berlin wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Robert Dewar wrote: 2) The fact that Android refuses to provide a non-HTML e-mail capability is ridiculous but does not seem to me to be a reason for us to change our policy. Surely there are altenrative email c

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
Hi - On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:58:33PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote: > [...] > I'd love to see data on this. As others have pointed out, almost > every other open source project accepts html email. [...] > Do you have reason to believe our existing spam detection solution > will start to fail mass

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 24 November 2012 17:47, Robert Dewar wrote: > >> 2) The fact that Android refuses to provide a non-HTML e-mail capability >> is ridiculous but does not seem to me to be a reason for us to change >> our policy. > > > Surely there are altenrative email client for Android that have plain > text cap

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Robert Dewar
On 11/24/2012 1:13 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote: The official gmail app, which obviously integrates well with gmail and is good in most other ways, won't send non-html mails. There seem to be a variety of alternatives http://www.tested.com/tech/android/3110-the-best-alternative-android-apps-to-

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Ruben Safir
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:58:33PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > Diego Novillo writes: > > > >> Sure. First I wanted to find out whether this requirement is just a > >> technical limitation with our mailing list software. > > > > It i

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Ruben Safir
> > Yes, we should expect users to change, instead of keeping up with users. No - we shouldn't punish developers by making them use stupid mime translational servces that breaks the replying mechanism in EMACS and mutt because they are stupidly try to post to a tech mailing list on their androi

gcc-4.7-20121124 is now available

2012-11-24 Thread gccadmin
Snapshot gcc-4.7-20121124 is now available on ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/4.7-20121124/ and on various mirrors, see http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html for details. This snapshot has been generated from the GCC 4.7 SVN branch with the following options: svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches

Re: RFC - Alternatives to gengtype

2012-11-24 Thread Diego Novillo
Thanks for all the responses. I have created a wiki page to track this proposal: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cxx-conversion/gc-alternatives It is also indexed from the main improvements wiki: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/ImprovementProjects Given the number of choices we have in this proposal, I've added

Re: Simplifying Gimple Generation

2012-11-24 Thread Diego Novillo
Thanks for all the responses. I have created a wiki page to track this proposal: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cxx-conversion/gimple-generation It is also indexed from the main improvements wiki: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/ImprovementProjects Thanks. Diego.

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Daniel Berlin
Sorry dude, I don't engage in substantive conversation with abusive trolls. On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Ruben Safir wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:58:33PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> > Diego Novillo writes: >> > >> >> Su

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

2012-11-24 Thread Ruben Safir
Sorry - I wasn't really interested in debating this any more than one should debate the effects of having your head squashed if you hang your head over the rail when the IRT is coming. It just gets squashed. BTW, as well as learning to use text for email, also please learn to trim the CC list..

Reorg a reorg.c comment

2012-11-24 Thread Steven Bosscher
Hello, A "Not yet implemented" comment in reorg.c discusses conditional execution. The comment already existed in the earliest revision in the repository (r99) so it pre-dates the conditional execution framework now used by the "Acorn RISC Machine" (better known as ARM nowadays :-) and how HP-PA c