Re: Policy on use of LLM tools and bug fixes

"Richard Earnshaw \(foss\) via Gcc" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gcc.devel,gmane.comp.gcc.fortran
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 14/03/2026 19:02, Jeffrey Law via Gcc 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.
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> Jeff

I notice that the Linux kernel recently adopted the following policy:  https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst

Has there been any progress on GCC yet?

R.
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