On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 06:57:00PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, John Goerzen wrote: > > > 1) Difficulty with, and speed of, buildd systems > > > > 2) Difficulty of syncing testing across all archs given #1 > > 2a) Bugs on "small" arch which blocks testing migration of "big" arch > > There are not many people who can do in-depth debugging on most small > architectures, arch-specific gcc internals are less-well exercised and > therefore more buggy, just recompiling gcc is a problem ...
Granted, gcc and libc can cause an inordinate amount of trouble there. But in almost every other case, a bug in a "small" arch is a genuine bug in the program that should be fixed, and usually is not exceptionally hard to find. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
