On 18 December 2015 at 12:26, Massimiliano Cialdi <cialdi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Here it is told "Very occasionally these branches will hold patches >>> that are waiting for trunk acceptance". I wonder why new feature, bug >>> fixes and enhancement aren't regularly submitted for trunk acceptance. >> >> It doesn't say that. >> >> It says that some patches are *waiting* to be accepted, not that they >> were not submitted. > I wonder why not all patches are submitted. > As it is written, it seems that some patches (perhaps many) are never > submitted for trunk acceptance No, it doesn't say that. >> I don't know anything about the branch, but the way I read the docs >> the branch *might* have some arm-specific features that were added on >> trunk but not backported to the official gcc-4_9-branch. It *might* >> also have some arm-specific patches that were added to the branch and >> haven't been added to trunk yet. >> >> So the patches on the branch are either already on trunk or have been >> proposed for the trunk. > So trunk might already have patch applied to ARM/embedded-*-branch. > > Is it reasonable to assume that the official gcc-5-branch has at least > all the ARM/embedded-4_8-branch patches (and maybe some patch from > ARM/embedded-4_9-branch)? Yes, probably, but I would compare the branches myself if I cared.
