Re: [Gnu-arch-users] NEW POLICIES (draft)

[Andrew Suffield]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 02:59:47PM -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Andrew Suffield wrote:
> >On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 03:11:47PM -0700, Thomas Lord wrote:
> >
> >>** The Solution: Cascade Branches
> >>
> >> There is a simple and elegant solution to the problem with 
> >> long term branches and that is to use "cascade branches",
> >> as illustrated in ./cascade.ps.
> >
> >
> >On reflection, this is just a prism structure under a different name,
> >plus a rule that there must be a single line of ancestry through all
> >of them (which is actually useless and should be ignored - this isn't
> >used for anything, so regular freeform prism structure will work just
> >the same; the freeform structure is just a set of 'cascades' anyway).
> 
> The single-line-of-ancestry rule means it's not a prism.

Not one, but several. It's a sequence of prisms tacked on top of each
other. The classical prism structure is a set of these things sitting
next to each other. The difference can and should be ignored unless
there happens to be a real dependency here, in which case it's the
obvious way to do it anyway.

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