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* Tom Tromey wrote on Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 07:45:32PM CET:
> 
> The thing that bothers me here isn't making mistakes -- I do that all
> the time -- but rather that I really thought this patch was
> bulletproof, that I'd tested it a lot, etc ... so I felt completely
> blindsided by all the problems.  This presses a lot of buttons for me.

First, I would like to say that I'm very sorry that this was such a bad
experience for you.

Then, since you mention "all the problems", I wonder: were there any
other show-stopper problems beside the hideous make bug?

Cheers,
Ralf