Re: Bugs in G++, Bug Documentation, Bug Reporting and Bug Tracking

[Jason Merrill <jason at cygnus dot com>]

>>>>> Melissa O'Neill <oneill@cs.sfu.ca> writes:

 > Recently, I found a serious bug in template and #pragma handling in the
 > EGCS 1.1 branch (and all recent G++ compilers), and submitted the bug
 > report to egcs-bugs, where it seems to have gone ignored. Now, I certainly
 > don't expect to have the bugs I find fixed right away, but what does
 > help is to have some idea that someone out there is actually paying
 > attention.

Well, we're all volunteers, and we don't always have time to respond to
every bug report.  All I can say is that we'll get around to it when we get
around to it.

 > Having a real bug tracking system for EGCS (or even just a list of known
 > bugs, issues and unsupported features in G++) would certainly help here.

Agreed.

 > I know that there are various freeware bug tracking systems out there --
 > maybe this is something for the EGCS steering committee to think on.
 > (I'd volunteer to get involved in setting it up, but I think it would
 > be better if it was doing by someone inside cygnus and I'm already
 > over-extended in voluntary commitments).

If you wait for someone at Cygnus to set it up, it'll be a long time; we've
all got our hands full.  This is an ideal task for a volunteer who isn't as
familiar with the compiler internals but still wants to help.

Jason