Rustc_codegen_GCC can now bootstrap rustc

Re:Rustc_codegen_GCC can now bootstrap rustc by mahkoh on Friday April 01, 2022 @12:10PM (#30879746)

>FWIW though I think GCC is really playing with fire when it comes to it's future - the mailing list approach to development deters new contributors, the testing infrastructure is quite arcane, etc.

And LLVM is better? At the start of last year I found and fixed a small bug in LLVM[1]. I submitted the fix via their Phabricator instance and it was approved by project members after a few days. As per the contributor guide, I then asked for a project member to commit my patch to the LLVM repository. This is because in Phabricator there does not appear to be an automatic way to commit approved changes. A project member has to manually take the patch and apply it.

A few weeks ago I tried to see what happened to my patch and found that it had never been applied. So basically my work and that of the reviewers was simply lost because of their infrastructure.

[1] https://reviews.llvm.org/D96334

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Re:Rustc_codegen_GCC can now bootstrap rustc by jmorse2 on Friday April 01, 2022 @01:16PM (#30880677)

(NB: the developers guide says to ping if there's no activity for a week)

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Re:Rustc_codegen_GCC can now bootstrap rustc by mhh__ on Friday April 01, 2022 @04:03PM (#30882693)

I get that LLVM can be bad too but at least there's a phabricator at all.

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Re:Rustc_codegen_GCC can now bootstrap rustc by stjohnswarts on Friday April 01, 2022 @01:10PM (#30880605)

Did you try again? I'm not discounting your efforts but n=1 is not an optimal way to determine that LLVM change/bugfix process is "broken".

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