On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Andrew Haley<a...@redhat.com> wrote: >> This is precisely my point. It should be perfectly acceptable that some >> people be authorized to approve some few patches without understanding >> the whole of GCC, and even without knowing all of it. > > GCC isn't really like that. Changes in one part can affect things much > later on, and you really have to know why. That doesn't mean you have > to understand all of the compiler, but you need to have a lot of > knowledge.
This is a problem with GCC's lack of modularity, not with Basile's point of view. Ciao! Steven