From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24054 invoked by alias); 16 Jun 2005 16:34:40 -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 23996 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Jun 2005 16:34:32 -0000 Received: from bethe.phy.uc.edu (HELO bethe.phy.uc.edu) (129.137.4.14) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:34:32 +0000 Received: from [172.30.118.132] (zhivago.ccm-wireless.uc.edu [172.30.118.132]) by bethe.phy.uc.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j5GGYTFj011859; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:34:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <9ec9be45127382bef72a8ab82df669aa@physics.uc.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org From: Andrew Pinski Subject: Re: Reporting bugs: there is nothing to gain in frustrating reporters Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:34:00 -0000 To: Mark Hahn X-Spam-Score: -100 () USER_IN_WHITELIST X-SW-Source: 2005-06/txt/msg00668.txt.bz2 On Jun 16, 2005, at 10:11 AM, Mark Hahn wrote: >>> I'm answering that since this is plainly wrong. Bug 21809 was >>> closed by yourself on 2005-05-29. This is not 1999! >> >> You deny that Bug 21809 is the same bug as Bug 323, which was closed >> in >> 1999? >> >> Again, this is a place where you disagree that this should be >> considered >> a "bug", but refuse to believe that reasonable people can disagree on >> it. > > the question then becomes whether GCC is helped or harmed by > its current policy of unpredictable excess precision. > > it's quite unfortunate that gcc responders feel so free to vent > their annoyance about this. Pinski, for instance, is absurdly > unhelpful in suggesting that the bug reporter just abandon x87. Well abandoning x87 was a joke, I was trying to get the point across that this is long standing "problem" with x87. If you go and search you will see this comes up every year since at least 1998 before EGCS was officially GCC. -- Pinski