Re: Reporting bugs: there is nothing to gain in frustrating reporters

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net>]

Michael Veksler <VEKSLER@il.ibm.com> writes:

| gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org wrote on 19/06/2005 18:33:55:
| 
| > Vincent Lefevre <vincent+gcc@vinc17.org> writes:
| >
| > | On 2005-06-19 15:47:58 +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > | > If you think it is an invalid bug, then it effectively is a complete
| > | > non-sense that you continue making noise on this list about it.
| > |
| > | I've never said that I thought it was an invalid bug.
| >
| > Then, care to explain
| >
| >    On 2005-06-19 11:47:16 +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| >    > since you seem OK with that solution, would you mind preparing a
| patch?
| >    > (discussions are not executables; someone needs to make things
| happen.)
| >
| >    This is complete non-sense. One doesn't prepare a patch for an invalid
| >    bug.
| >
| > ?
| >
| > -- Gaby
| 
| I think that what Vincent meant was:
| "One doesn't prepare a patch for a PR marked as INVALID".

Then let me explain my previous message.  Either

  (1) Vincent thinks it is an invalid bug, then

         http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-06/msg00818.html

  (2) or Vincent thinks it is NOT an invalid bug, then

         http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-06/msg00803.html

Vincent can help himself changing the status of PRs, based on informed
facts. And in effect, that just happened to that very PR.  If the only
thing that was stopping him from producing a patch was the status of
the PR, then now that it changed I expect patch from him. 

-- Gaby