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- From: MILLER@TGV.COM
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
- Subject: re: PATCH on ALPHA ?
- Message-ID: <715362736.403197.MILLER@TGV.COM>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 15:52:16 GMT
- Organization: Macro32<==>Vmsnet.Internals Gateway
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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.
- >
- >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!
-
- I doubt it. I've already worked with miles and miles of machine listings
- from both the GEM C compiler and the MACRO32 compiler. I've even found
- several compiler optimizer bugs. I know what I'm doing.
-
- Besides, a lot of patches are trivial, like constant changes. And
- what if I want to patch some native M64 code?
-
- >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!
-
- So when is Digital going to fix Patch so that it works on already
- loaded images?
-
- -bruce
-