[LLVMdev] Difficulties Getting a Bug Fix Committed

[Michael Muller]

Hi Duncan -

Duncan Sands wrote:
> Hi Michael, don't forget that Eric made some comments that you never replied to.
> Since his comments seemed pretty pertinent I wasn't prepared to apply your patch
> without a satisfactory response from you.

I replied in the bug: http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=13678#c5

Please let me know if you need anything further.

> 
> Ciao, Duncan.
> 
> > I've been waiting for almost three months now to get a patch committed to LLVM
> > that fixes what I consider to be a fairly significant bug in the JIT
> > (http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=13678) but I've been having a hard time
> > getting traction on it.  So far Duncan Sands is the only one who has given it
> > any attention, but as of the last time I checked it still wasn't committed and
> > the bug is still open.
> >
> > Right now we ship our code with a patch to fix this in 3.1, I really don't
> > want to have to do that again for 3.2.
> >
> > I appreciate the difficulties in running a project as large as LLVM, and it
> > looks like there are some recent structural changes that might decentralize
> > some of the review/commit burden, but it doesn't speak well for your project
> > when you have a bug with a fix and a unit test just ready to go that's not
> > getting into the next release.
> >
> > Can anyone help me move this forward?
> >
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