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Re: c++/38: matching of function signatures
- From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth at ticam dot utexas dot edu>
- To: Nathanael Nerode <neroden at twcny dot rr dot com>
- Cc: martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de, <gcc-gnats at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <nathan at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:17:02 -0600 (CST)
- Subject: Re: c++/38: matching of function signatures
> Is this fixed yet? It's the oldest open bug in gcc's database.
Nope, and I hope I can retain my status of the one who "owns" the oldest
open report for some time :-)
B.t.w., I bet this is the prototype of at least ten other reports that
have been filed over the years. I've seen it quite a number of times, but
finding these duplicates would require a more comprehensive audit of the
4-500 or so non-closed C++ reports, which probably no-one has the time to
do.
There are certain classes of bugs that appear over and over again,
like this one, problems with friends and namespaces, some template
problems, etc. Sometimes duplicates are closed with a reference to
another one. But in general, it's hard to find a duplicate even if you
know that there's one, since I find search facilities in GNATS to be so
limited (and also because it is often hard to come up with meaningful
search patterns for a certain problem). I guess the only way to cope
with that is to check every half a year whether a certain report is still
reproducible and by this eventually close duplicates once one
representative of this family has been fixed.
Regards
Wolfgang
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