Re: Policy on use of LLM tools and bug fixes
Florian Weimer via Gcc <[email protected]>
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* Thomas Koenig via Gcc: > A patch for gcc has to apply and work. For anything not completely > trivial this means that it has to tie in with gcc's data structures > and algorithms. A non-trivial patch that is an exact copy of somebody > else's work has to come from a gcc branch. So it is already covered > by the GPL v3 (or v2, for very old versions). I think for some auto-written patches, this line of argument has a lot of merit. Aren't there newer front ends that are somewhat separated from the rest of GCC's data structures? And it clearly does not apply to run-time library code and test cases. Thanks, Florian