From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15223 invoked by alias); 18 Jun 2005 20:45:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 15190 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Jun 2005 20:45:20 -0000 Received: from nile.gnat.com (HELO nile.gnat.com) (205.232.38.5) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 20:45:20 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 667C4963D; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 16:45:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from nile.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nile.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27485-01; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 16:45:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (dhcp08.adacore-vt.com [12.160.210.181]) by nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F021963A; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 16:45:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42B487D2.6010602@adacore.com> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 20:45:00 -0000 From: Robert Dewar User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mattias Karlsson CC: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Reporting bugs: there is nothing to gain in frustrating reporters References: <87psunpgqp.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <20050615221456.GL4741@ay.vinc17.org> <20050616120845.GR4741@ay.vinc17.org> <1118924420.7720.6.camel@linux.site> <20050616160030.GY4741@ay.vinc17.org> <42B1A4EA.9050901@adacore.com> <20050616185255.GA4741@ay.vinc17.org> <42B1F4FB.6020607@adacore.com> <20050618065247.GC3328@ay.vinc17.org> <42B4160A.3090409@adacore.com> <42B41DD5.3000004@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2005-06/txt/msg00760.txt.bz2 Mattias Karlsson wrote: > Since the "gcc-is-buggy" solution of changing x87 rounding modes will: > 1) Be a lot of work. > 2) Cause a lot of regressions. To this you can add 3) generate less efficient code 4) cause some algorithms that work now to fail