On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Brad Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> FWIW, I couldn't find any of these code reviews through simple >> searching. They're probably there and I've just missed them, but I think >> others may have missed them as well and also been confused. It would >> have been nice to let people know this was landing now. Switching >> between the integrated assembler and the system assembler is very often >> a disruptive process. Doing it a few hours before 3.6 branches seems >> like a *really* bad idea under any circumstances. This is the kind of >> thing that should happen right after a release branches rather than >> right before. We should at least make sure that 3.6 doesn't include this >> change. >> > > I switched it because all of the BSD's have already been using this > on the 32-bit PowerPC side of the house for quite awhile now and that's > where more or less all the testing and development has been going on > for 32-bit PowerPC as far as I can see. The SPARC backend is still > quite experimental and has rough edges. I could understand the concern > if either backend was more or less 100% perfect or close to it but > they're not. There is still a lot of work going on to make the relevant > architectures usable and by usable I mean building a whole OS not > just a few userland programs here and there. FWIW, I still don't think it's reasonable to change strategy like this just before cutting a release. I think that 3.6 shouldn't have this change so that we can prepare for it in the run up to 3.7.
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