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- From: SYSMGR@IPG.PH.KCL.AC.UK
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- Subject: re: PATCH on ALPHA ?
- Message-ID: <21600323_00057EE8.0095FF6C011FCD60$6_1@UK.AC.KCL.PH.IPG>
- Date: Tue, 1 SEP 92 10:44:50 BST
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- > Oh bugger. So I have to cut a tape whenever I want to send someone a fix?
- > With Patch I can fix things immediately over the phone. I think it's a
- > foolish decision to leave Patch out. It's going to make my job a lot
- > harder.
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- I doubt it. Given all the work that a RISC compiler does on your source
- (even, I suspect, if the source is MACRO32), I think that trying to
- implemement a nontrivial patch to the code that doesn't have unexpected
- side-effects is probably a lot more work than recompiling!
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- The only exception I can think of is patching the DATA sections in the
- image. But the current patch utility could do that, and I can't remember
- when I last wanted to use PATCH on data sections anyway!
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- Yours,
- Nigel Arnot
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