From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Ram'on Garc'ia Fern'andez" To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Illegal instruction (core dumped) on i586 Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 23:20:00 -0000 Message-ID: <19990805213727.A2789@jl1.quim.ucm.es> X-SW-Source: 1999-08n/msg00202.html Message-ID: <19990831232000.X0HNQY6_gwWs03VM7riVnekxgaQLA3tx6Q84v47F9jQ@z> What makes the attitude of Igor Markov very unpolite is to place a striking message on the subject line "Illegal instruction (core dumped) on i586" It appears that Igor believes that he is very clever using a subject line that looks as a serious bug report, so that it is more likely to be read. If I where an EGCS developer I would feel offended. You can forgive one newbie who makes a silly question on this mailing list, after all all of we have been newbies. Even if the question is very silly you can answer it if you have free time. But complaing that he does not have a RPM and using such a subject line is a very different thing. It is like those spams messages that have a subject line that looks like a message from a friend. Or like those messages that have a From line like if your admistrator had written them, and then you find out that they offer how to win 3000$ in a day.. This is not acceptable at all. Certainly GCC developers are more polite than me, taking into account that none of them mentioned the bad attitude of Igor. These facts do not encourage GCC development. Even if some developers of GCC are full-time Cygnus employees, many of them are volunteers. Some of them, like Craig, have made a very remarkable work. The combination of Igor messages with Torvalds insults makes the will of these volunteers more difficult to maintain. So end users like me should at least acknowledge the quality of their work. And if we must solve a problem related to end use, we should try first with any Linux expert that we find near us. If we must make a question about instalation, let us find out as much as posible by ourselves, so that developer time can be more productive. Ramon