Re: I finally found the bug: its name is "g++"

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 06:26:49PM +0200, Markus Werle wrote:
> g++-3.0 opens the door to long debugging nights, because it builds some
> objects at the same address twice.  I could not believe my eyes when I saw
> this in the debugging output.
> 
> How come this bug passed the testsuite?

How come I did a search through the entirety of GNATS and couldn't find
this bug?  Or anything at all with your name on it?  Or your email address?

If you don't file PRs as the bug-reporting page suggests, you can hardly
be surprised when they aren't fixed.


> Reading through http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/2001-09/ pushes my

Okay, now I /did/ find a lot of messages from you in the gcc-bugs archives.
Nearly all for HPUX, which just doesn't get a lot of attention, compared
to the other commonly-used platforms.  Don't bitch and moan about the
compiler as a whole if the problems are in the support for a single platform.

I picked some messages at random.  Of those which contained sample code
showing the error, all of them were errors in your code, and acknowledged
as such in followups.

I also searched gcc-patches for your name.  Wow.  For someone who's sent
so many bug reports to gcc-bugs, you never once made an attempt at a patch.
It's a /volunteer/ effort, dude.

You /did/ submit documentation patches, for which I sincerely thank you.


> Rethink: Do we really need 
[...]
> "a new physical location with significantly improved bandwidth"

I stopped reading here.  Clearly you haven't tried actually contributing
code, or you would have experienced the troubles for yourself.


Well, I hope your future compiling experiences have been better than your
past ones have been.  Sorry to see you leave.

Phil

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