New GNATS category request

New GNATS category request

[Neil Booth]

"driver", pretty please.  Many bugs in the driver get stuffed anywhere from
"c", to "other" and "preprocessor".

Neil.

Re: New GNATS category request

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Neil Booth wrote:

> "driver", pretty please.  Many bugs in the driver get stuffed anywhere from
> "c", to "other" and "preprocessor".

If we're adding new categories now (not waiting for Bugzilla), "target" is
long overdue to have separate categories for the main CPU and OS targets
split off (target-i386, target-sparc, target-linux-gnu, ...).  
(Previously requested.)  That way target maintainers can more easily
select the bugs actually relevant to them.

Note new categories need documenting in gnats.html and gccbug.in, as noted
in the internals manual for adding new front ends (Anatomy of a Language
Front End).  If categories for separate targets are added there should be
a similar entry in "Anatomy of a Target Back End", although not all
targets necessarily need their own categories, only reasonably popular
ones (inflation of the number of categories too much might confuse
submitters).

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk

Re: New GNATS category request

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> Neil wrote:
>> "driver", pretty please.  Many bugs in the driver get stuffed anywhere
>> from "c", to "other" and "preprocessor".

Neil, if you provide me with a short description (like we have for the
other categories, you can see these using gnatsweb, for example) and an
update for gnats.html and gccbug.in, I will setup this.

> If we're adding new categories now (not waiting for Bugzilla), "target" is
> long overdue to have separate categories for the main CPU and OS targets
> split off (target-i386, target-sparc, target-linux-gnu, ...).
> (Previously requested.)  That way target maintainers can more easily
> select the bugs actually relevant to them.

I don't have any strong opinion here, but this seems like more invasive
(and disputed, when it comes to the actual details) change, though if
there is consensus, I don't see problems adding further categories.

Gerald
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Gerald "Jerry"   pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at   http://www.pfeifer.com/gerald/

Re: New GNATS category request

[Neil Booth]

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Gerald Pfeifer wrote:-

> Neil, if you provide me with a short description (like we have for the
> other categories, you can see these using gnatsweb, for example) and an
> update for gnats.html and gccbug.in, I will setup this.

OK:

driver:	the compiler driver
inline asm: failures caused by inline assembler

Suggested diffs are attached.

Thanks!

Neil.

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Index: gccbug.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc/gccbug.in,v
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -u -p -r1.15 gccbug.in
--- gccbug.in	31 Jan 2002 19:36:23 -0000	1.15
+++ gccbug.in	1 Jan 2003 22:48:24 -0000
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ EOF
 done
 
 # spam does not need to be listed here
-CATEGORIES="ada bootstrap c++ c debug fortran java libf2c libgcj libobjc libstdc++ middle-end objc optimization other preprocessor target web"
+CATEGORIES="ada bootstrap c++ c debug driver fortran inline-asm java libf2c libgcj libobjc libstdc++ middle-end objc optimization other preprocessor target web"
 
 case "$FORMAT" in
   lisp) echo "$CATEGORIES" | \

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Index: gnats.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gnats.html,v
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -p -r1.19 gnats.html
--- gnats.html	11 Oct 2002 23:49:50 -0000	1.19
+++ gnats.html	1 Jan 2003 22:52:43 -0000
@@ -75,22 +75,28 @@ does not foo", "objc crashes when doing 
     Currently, it can be one of
   <dl>
   <dt>ada</dt>
-  <dd>A problem with the Ada compiler, libraries or tools.</dd>
+  <dd>A problem with the Ada compiler front end, libraries or tools.</dd>
   <dt>bootstrap</dt>
   <dd>GCC fails to bootstrap. This should be filed <em>only</em> if a
   bootstrap failure prevails for an extended period of time (at least
   one week) on any platform (and possibly not-so-common conditions like
   a read-only srcdir), or non-mainstream platforms.</dd>
   <dt>c++</dt>
-  <dd>A problem with the C++ compiler.</dd>
+  <dd>A problem with the C++ compiler front end.</dd>
   <dt>c</dt>
-  <dd>A problem with the C compiler.</dd>
+  <dd>A problem with the C compiler front end.</dd>
   <dt>debug</dt>
-  <dd>A problem with generating debugging information.</dd>
+  <dd>A problem with gererating debugging information.</dd>
+  <dt>driver</dt>
+  <dd>A problem with a compiler driver, namely <strong>gcc</strong>,
+   <strong>g++</strong>, <strong>g77</strong>, <strong>gcj</strong> or
+   <strong>gnat</strong>.</dd>
   <dt>fortran</dt>
-  <dd>A problem with the Fortran compiler.</dd>
+  <dd>A problem with the Fortran compiler front end.</dd>
+  <dt>inline-asm</dt>
+  <dd>A problem caused by use of inline assembly.</dd>
   <dt>java</dt>
-  <dd>A problem with the Java compiler.</dd>
+  <dd>A problem with the Java compiler front end.</dd>
   <dt>libf2c</dt>
   <dd>A problem in the Fortran runtime library.</dd>
   <dt>libgcj</dt>

Re: New GNATS category request

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Neil Booth wrote:
>> Neil, if you provide me with a short description (like we have for the
>> other categories, you can see these using gnatsweb, for example) and an
>> update for gnats.html and gccbug.in, I will setup this.
> driver:	the compiler driver
> inline asm: failures caused by inline assembler

I just created these two new categories (using "inline-asm" instead of
"inline asm", which you actually also used in your gnats.html patch).

> Suggested diffs are attached.

Yes, this looks fine. I noticed that you also fixed that latent bugs in
gnats.html and made some changes for the sake of consistency - thanks!

+  <dd>A problem with a compiler driver, namely <strong>gcc</strong>,
+   <strong>g++</strong>, <strong>g77</strong>, <strong>gcj</strong> or
+   <strong>gnat</strong>.</dd>

Here I'd use <code> instead of <strong>.

Would you mind committing the patches (gccbug.in also to the 3.3 branch,
I'd say)?

Gerald
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Gerald "Jerry"   pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at   http://www.pfeifer.com/gerald/

Re: New GNATS category request

[Neil Booth]

Gerald Pfeifer wrote:-

> I just created these two new categories (using "inline-asm" instead of
> "inline asm", which you actually also used in your gnats.html patch).

Thanks!

> > Suggested diffs are attached.
> 
> Yes, this looks fine. I noticed that you also fixed that latent bugs in
> gnats.html and made some changes for the sake of consistency - thanks!
> 
> +  <dd>A problem with a compiler driver, namely <strong>gcc</strong>,
> +   <strong>g++</strong>, <strong>g77</strong>, <strong>gcj</strong> or
> +   <strong>gnat</strong>.</dd>
> 
> Here I'd use <code> instead of <strong>.
> 
> Would you mind committing the patches (gccbug.in also to the 3.3 branch,
> I'd say)?

All done.

Neil.

Re: New GNATS category request

[Neil Booth]

Neil Booth wrote:-

> Gerald Pfeifer wrote:-
> 
> > I just created these two new categories (using "inline-asm" instead of
> > "inline asm", which you actually also used in your gnats.html patch).

If I use the new category, I get:

Error

Cannot write the PR to /sourceware/gnats/gcc-db/inline-asm/2182: No such
file or directory

displayed in my web browser.

e.g. try changing the category of PR c++/2182 which is about inline-asm.

Neil.

Re: New GNATS category request

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Neil Booth wrote:
> If I use the new category, I get:
>
> Error
>
> Cannot write the PR to /sourceware/gnats/gcc-db/inline-asm/2182: No such
> file or directory
>
> displayed in my web browser.
>
> e.g. try changing the category of PR c++/2182 which is about inline-asm.

Now it should work, and I have verified that using PR 1949.

Alas GNAT apparently has lost PR c++/2182 <argl!>, but I'll see that
we can recover that. :-(

Gerald
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Gerald "Jerry"   pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at   http://www.pfeifer.com/gerald/

Re: New GNATS category request

[Wolfgang Bangerth]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Neil Booth wrote:

> "driver", pretty please.  Many bugs in the driver get stuffed anywhere from
> "c", to "other" and "preprocessor".

Rather than working on adding new categories to GNATS now, I would ask for
lobbying RedHat to give Chris Faylor more time to set up the new server,
at long last.

We (or Daniel Berlin, who has already been through all this) would then 
not have to repeat the process for Bugzilla.

Bugzilla has been promised for such a long time, and we have been through 
all this discussion and nothing has happened :-(

Regards
  Wolfgang

PS: Neil, I'm all in favor of your suggestion. This really needs to be 
done!

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