Re: Documentation: Bugs

[Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>]

On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Jonas Rathert wrote:
> while going through the web-pages I found the buglist: bugs.html.
> [...]
> Anyway, this file should be updated before the release of gcc-2.95!  

That would be nice, but, as Jeff noted, it is not critical.

> I'd suggest to create a subdirectory bugs/ which contains files
> egcs-1.1.html, egcs-1.2.html and gcc-2.95.html.

If we go that road, we should re-use the current directory structure
with egcs-1.0, egcs-1.1 and gcc-2.95.

> This way we can "freeze" the known bugs of egcs* (for users coming
> late or using e.g. Linux distributions with older egcs-compilers) and
> start a new buglist for gcc-2.95 (which will propably grow after the
> release of gcc-2.95).

I think we should not care too much about old versions of GCC, where
currently old means GCC 2.8.x and EGCS 1.0.x and I am not sure how
maintainable separate bug lists will be.

If we have volunteers willing to maintain such pages and keep them 
up-to-date that might change my opinion, but as you noticed, even
keeping the current single page up-to-date is not easy.

> Another way is to create one big file with different sections for
> different compiler versions.

How about having a list with frequently encountered bugs in the current
(GCC 2.95.x) and previous (EGCS 1.1.x) releases together with detailed
information which release suffers from which bug and information when
resp. whether a bug has been fixed?

Gerald
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