From: "Jeroen Frijters" <jeroen@sumatra.nl>
To: "Andrew Haley" <aph@redhat.com>
Cc: "David Gilbert" <david.gilbert@object-refinery.com>,
"Roman Kennke" <roman@kennke.org>, <classpath@gnu.org>,
<mauve-discuss@sourceware.org>
Subject: RE: Testing JDK bugs?
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:56:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D92197D0A6547B44A1567814F851FA6827A53C@LEMBU.sumatrasoftware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17608.61728.239237.86085@zebedee.pink>
Andrew Haley wrote:
> That depends on whether or not we think the spec or some
> implementation is buggy. It is often possible to tell -- some
> behaviours are just Obviously Wrong.
Even if something is "Obviously Wrong", it may not be a good idea to fix
it because it would be a breaking change. For example:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6227069
> When it's not possible to tell, we have to make a judgment call.
We obviously agree on this, but I'm trying to point out that things
aren't always as "obvious" as one would think at first glance.
Regards,
Jeroen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-28 7:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-27 9:49 Roman Kennke
2006-07-27 13:08 ` David Gilbert
2006-07-27 14:56 ` Jeroen Frijters
2006-07-27 16:32 ` David Gilbert
2006-07-27 17:01 ` Andrew Haley
2006-07-28 7:56 ` Jeroen Frijters [this message]
2006-07-28 12:33 ` Sven de Marothy
2006-07-28 14:51 ` Tom Tromey
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