Re: [PATCH 2 of 2] cc/gcc: 4.4.5, add arm-softfloat-libgcc patch from buildroot

[Bryan Hundven <bryanhundven at gmail dot com>]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 5:27 PM, M P <buserror@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Don't worry Bryan, it's a typical sort of open source wanker at work.
>> I've seen a large number of these before, just don't fall for it.
>> Sometime (often) they get their mind so tight around an issue that
>> they completely lose track of the universe and reality.
>>
>> I'm sorry to say it's often the french who pull that sort of
>> stupidity, for some reason -- not a 1:1 rule obviously, but a rather
>> discriminant proportion.
>>
>> Anyway, AFAIK, both my ARM toolchain works with the patch, and if the
>> patch fix my build failure, I don't /want/ to know about quantum
>> physics related to gcc to get stuff done (wich in this case is more
>> like a flag to force-add the match library), I don't give a damn, in
>> this particular case :=)
>>
>> ie: so little time, so many, many interesting projects....
>>
>> Michel, aka Michael (aka a french expatriate)
>>
> To be a little bit more constructive, you see only the small picture.
> I don't care gcc working for you or not. Beside correctness, what I do
> care about is about all the other user of gcc not using crosstool-ng.
> At this point several path can arise:
> Â- the issue is real, the patch right, it gets in gcc, and all the
> open-source community take benefits
> Â- the issue is real, but the patch is wrong, then the gcc devs can
> fix it correctly and all the open-source community take benefits
> Â- the issue is ct-ng specific, then Yann would have to fix the issue
> inside ct-ng.

Had this been your initial comment, I would have agreed, and would
have happily declined this patch.

> That said, you may only care about you, and I can not do anything about it.

But you just did. Communication... it works.

> Â- Arnaud
>
> --
> "The good of the many outweighs the good of the one."

-Bryan
(Ooo.. Let me insert a passive/aggressive quote too!)
"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. -William Shakespeare"

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