The GNU changelog system is utterly atrocious. Commits with no motivation are acceptable as long as they have syntactically valid changelog.
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@RichFelker tbh I don't understand the point in world where we can generate usable changelogs from commit messages -
@worr Precisely. But they don't have usable commit messages either. Commit message is just a copy of the useless changelog nonsense.
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@RichFelker but at least the original code remains, as a comment, to document that once a constant was added and this behavior was changed! -
@spun_off That's the worst part. Because the invalid 0x4000 offset was still there in current source, I didn't notice /* */ had been added.
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@RichFelker "This patch makes 32bit behave the same as 64bit" -- https://www.sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2009-02/msg00103.html … -
@ch3root Nice find - thanks. Of course it still offers no hint at what the motive was. -
@RichFelker I don't think there was any motive -- 32bit failed, changed it to be like 64bit, (presumably) it worked after that. That's all. -
@RichFelker Or you mean the motive for 0x4000 initially?
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