Re: [Sbcl-devel] netbsd patches

[Perry E. M. <pe...@pi...>]

Christophe Rhodes <cs...@ca...> writes:
>> Thanks for doing the integration. I'd sort of imagined these could go
>> into the mainline, though -- I was very careful to strip out all the
>> substantive patches and just update the various files that were
>> absolutely safe to update.
>
> Does this affect the way you'd work on the NetBSD port in a
> substantial way?

Somewhat. I'm trying to track the head of the CVS tree in doing the
work -- I won't be checking out the branch so I can avoid integration
issues later on.

> I quite agree with you that the patches that I merged were safe and
> uncontroversial, but on the other hand they were also advertising
> functionality which isn't there at the moment, absent the rest of
> the port.

Well, I didn't submit my documentation fixes, so users reading the
docs won't see the changes...

>> FYI, I have a lot more patches, some of them MI. I also have been
>> working to reduce the number of warnings produced by the C compiler
>> when building the run time...
>
> I don't know what "MI" means here,

Machine independent, as opposed to "MD", machine dependent. I'm used
to that jargon in other projects, though I suppose it isn't the lingo
around here.



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Perry E. Metzger		pe...@pi...