Mentions in a few places about the possibility for people to not implement the GCC codegen part of their PR

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Mentions in a few places about the possibility for people to not implement the GCC codegen part of their PR

antoyo opened this issue 5 months ago · 4 comments

antoyo commented 5 months ago

In the ping message.
Comments at the top of some files.
In the readme.
In the rustc dev guide.

Answer 1 · 2024-05-17T01:02:45.000Z

Hello @antoyo. I would like to take this one, can you give me more context?

Answer 2 · 2024-05-22T12:42:57.000Z

I'm not sure if we actually want this.

@GuillaumeGomez: When we have the GCC codegen distributed in rustup, do you think it will be a bad idea to tell people to not implement new features?
Perhaps we could allow it if the tests still pass?

Answer 3 · 2024-05-22T12:54:25.000Z

I think it's already a bad idea.

Answer 4 · 2024-05-22T14:07:08.000Z

Since we'll soon have rustup distribution (famous last words), we believe it won't be viable if people can break the GCC codegen any day, so let's not do this.