From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16064 invoked by alias); 17 Dec 2002 01:26:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-prs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-prs-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 16050 invoked by uid 71); 17 Dec 2002 01:26:01 -0000 Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:26:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20021217012601.16049.qmail@sources.redhat.com> To: nobody@gcc.gnu.org Cc: gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org, From: Zack Weinberg Subject: Re: c++/8889: g++ 3.2.1 (also 3.2 it) miscompile Qt Reply-To: Zack Weinberg X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00888.txt.bz2 List-Id: The following reply was made to PR c++/8889; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Zack Weinberg To: Felix von Leitner Cc: bangerth@dealii.org, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: c++/8889: g++ 3.2.1 (also 3.2 it) miscompile Qt Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:25:09 -0800 Felix von Leitner writes: > I made a bug report and you refuse to even make a feeble attempt to > reproduce it. Instead you first claim that it's an ABI problem (which > is not and I wrote that), then you claim you need more information (you > don't, I included everything that is necessary to reproduce the problem) > and then you claim that I withhold necessary information. As a matter of project policy, the GCC team expects you to do more of the work of isolating the bug. I would like to draw your attention to http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html, which clearly states that you are expected to provide a self-contained, already preprocessed, as small as feasible, source file which is being miscompiled, along with an explanation of what it is supposed to do and what it does instead. We make this requirement because our experience is that, in a circumstance such as yours, we would be unable to reproduce the bug by downloading the software packages you mentioned and compiling them ourselves. Tiny differences in system headers, for instance, can perturb the bug out of manifesting. We would then have wasted a great deal of effort. zw