public inbox for gcc@gcc.gnu.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>
To: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
Cc: dclarke@blastwave.org, Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de>,
	  Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>,
	 "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>,
	Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>,
	  Richard Kenner <kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>,
	 gcc@gcc.gnu.org, hongjiu.lu@intel.com
Subject: Re: WTF?
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:18:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B0D94A9.3050502@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B0D8D18.9040805@redhat.com>

Jeff Law wrote:
> On 11/25/09 12:41, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>
>> Gentlemen, a point of order please.
>>
>> Let us not degrade into a base argument

> I don't see anything in this discussion that's out of the ordinary for
> this group of engineers.  We've had (and will certainly have) far more
> heated discussions on more important issues.

  I'd just like to add that I didn't take any offense at the quoted text(*)
from Richard G's response to me, nor see it as even intemperate or harsh; it's
nothing more than a bit of minor hyperbole to emphasise the point, a
bog-standard rhetorical technique in entirely everyday use.

    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
(*) - which you left unattributed and may appear in your out-of-context quote
to be something that I wrote.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-25 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-25 19:41 WTF? Dennis Clarke
2009-11-25 20:01 ` WTF? Jeff Law
2009-11-25 20:18   ` Dave Korn [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-11-25 16:39 WTF? Richard Guenther
2009-11-25 16:40 ` WTF? Richard Guenther
2009-11-25 16:47   ` WTF? Richard Kenner
2009-11-25 16:50     ` WTF? Richard Guenther
2009-11-26 12:14       ` WTF? Vincent Lefevre
2009-11-25 16:58     ` WTF? Jeff Law
2009-11-25 17:09       ` WTF? Michael Matz
2009-11-25 17:16         ` WTF? Richard Kenner
2009-11-25 18:18           ` WTF? Michael Matz
2009-11-25 19:00             ` WTF? Richard Kenner
2009-11-25 19:39               ` WTF? Richard Guenther
2009-11-25 19:43                 ` WTF? Richard Guenther
2009-11-25 19:55                   ` WTF? Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2009-11-25 19:59                     ` WTF? Jeff Law
2009-11-25 23:05                     ` WTF? Tom Tromey
2009-11-25 23:08                       ` WTF? Richard Guenther
2009-11-25 23:30                         ` WTF? Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2009-11-26  0:54                           ` WTF? Joern Rennecke
2009-11-27 10:24                         ` WTF? Richard Earnshaw
2009-11-25 23:27                       ` WTF? Joseph S. Myers
2009-11-25 21:47                 ` WTF? Paolo Bonzini
2009-11-27 10:36                 ` WTF? Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-26 13:08               ` WTF? Michael Matz
2009-11-26 18:32                 ` WTF? Dave Korn
2009-11-25 19:31           ` WTF? Richard Guenther
2009-11-25 19:44             ` WTF? Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-11-25 23:21               ` WTF? Alexandre Oliva
2009-11-26  8:56                 ` WTF? Paolo Bonzini
2009-11-26 10:07                   ` WTF? Richard Guenther
2009-11-26 10:43                     ` WTF? Philip Martin
2009-11-25 20:17             ` WTF? Kaveh R. GHAZI
2009-11-25 20:22               ` WTF? Dave Korn
2009-11-25 20:28                 ` WTF? Richard Guenther
2009-11-25 20:33                   ` WTF? Kaveh R. Ghazi
2009-11-25 20:31                 ` WTF? Kaveh R. Ghazi
2009-11-25 20:35                   ` WTF? Richard Kenner
2009-11-25 20:51                     ` WTF? Kaveh R. Ghazi
2010-01-02 17:11                       ` WTF? Gerald Pfeifer
2009-11-25 23:12               ` WTF? Ben Elliston
2009-11-26 12:46                 ` WTF? Vincent Lefevre
2009-11-25 17:19         ` WTF? Jeff Law
2009-11-25 17:25           ` WTF? Joseph S. Myers
2009-11-25 17:32             ` WTF? Dave Korn
2009-11-25 19:34               ` WTF? Richard Guenther
2009-11-25 17:28           ` WTF? Richard Kenner
2009-11-25 17:03   ` WTF? Michael Matz
2009-11-25 17:29     ` WTF? Dave Korn
2009-11-25 21:55       ` WTF? Paolo Bonzini
2009-11-27 10:35     ` WTF? Richard Earnshaw
2009-11-25 23:52 ` WTF? Lu, Hongjiu
2009-11-26  0:09   ` WTF? H.J. Lu
2009-11-26 15:11   ` WTF? Jeff Law
2009-11-26 23:17     ` WTF? Lu, Hongjiu

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=4B0D94A9.3050502@gmail.com \
    --to=dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com \
    --cc=dclarke@blastwave.org \
    --cc=gcc@gcc.gnu.org \
    --cc=hongjiu.lu@intel.com \
    --cc=joseph@codesourcery.com \
    --cc=kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu \
    --cc=law@redhat.com \
    --cc=matz@suse.de \
    --cc=rguenther@suse.de \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).