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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:54:00 -0000
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Subject: Re: PowerPC suboptimal "add with carry" optimization
From: David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Manuel_L=F3pez=2DIb=E1=F1ez?= <lopezibanez@gmail.com>,  	Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org,  	Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
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In Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrot=
e:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Manuel L=F3pez-Ib=E1=F1ez
> <lopezibanez@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> What is to be done besides what you have done here but in a more
>>>> useful, structured manner? I am asking because we want to make things
>>>> simple but not simpler than they become more complex for us.
>>>
>>> Lots of stuff to read on that page, lots of info to supply,
>>> registering an account, specify all that system info and so on.
>>
>> I don't think it will take you much more than 15 minutes.
>
> There's been a long "why not contribute to GCC thread" so to point out
> the obvious...
>
> I guess that's the point, really. 15 minutes for what exactly? All the
> information is right there in the email Joakim sent. You are trying to
> make life easier for developers, not users or testers.

There are a large number of users and a small number of developers.
Why is it so large a burden to ask users to provide the information in
a standard format in a centralized, trackable location, like GCC
Bugzilla?

Thanks, David