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From: Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM>
To: Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Request for bugzilla submitters/maintainers: "Reportad against" field
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040323105547.A12011@synopsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0403231345090.31261@dberlin.org>; from dberlin@dberlin.org on Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 01:48:42PM -0500

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 01:48:42PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> By way of explanation of the purpose of "Reported Against"
> 
> Reported against was originally "Version", which makes no sense in the
> face of known to work/known to fail.
> 
> Thus, it simply became a way to determine what version of gcc the bug was
> reported against, as opposed to what versions it exists in.
> In fact, unless the submitter chose the wrong version, i'm not sure it
> should ever be changed during the life of the bug.

In the couple of cases I looked at, the submitter himself mentioned a
released GCC version that had the bug, but still marked "3.4.0" or "3.5.0"
as "Reported against".

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-23 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-23 19:40 Joe Buck
2004-03-23 19:44 ` Daniel Berlin
2004-03-23 19:48   ` Joe Buck [this message]
2004-03-23 20:01     ` Giovanni Bajo

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