Re: Policy on use of LLM tools and bug fixes

Florian Weimer via Gcc <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gcc.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* 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
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