Re: Policy on use of LLM tools and bug fixes

On Sat, 14 Mar 2026 at 19:04, Jeffrey Law via Gcc <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 3/14/2026 12:59 PM, Jerry D via Gcc wrote:
> > Some of the various LLM services available appear to be getting very
> > good at generating bug fixes. I realize that one must be careful as
> > these tools can at times do things that may be superfluous to the
> > actual fix. By superfluous I mean lines of code that are not relevant
> > to the lines that fix it.
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> > I saw some discussions of this subject for gcc somewhere and wanted to
> > know if we have a specific policy established / documented somewhere
> > regarding this.
> The steering committee is trying to figure out a good policy right now.

Carlos and I are actively working on policy wording that we will be
proposing soon for Glibc and GCC (as separate policies, but using the
same or very similar wording).