Re: Number of 3.3 hi-pri PRs going up

[Steven Bosscher <s dot bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl>]

Op vr 21-02-2003, om 18:48 schreef Janis Johnson:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:20:03PM +0100, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> > 
> > Just one week before the planned release of GCC 3.3, the number of
> > high-priority bugs for 3.3 is going *up* instead of down!
> > 
> > Mostly thanks to Wolfgang and Janis, for quite a few PRs the patches
> > causing the bugs have been located.  Unfortunately, hardly any of these
> > PRs were picked up by by somebody for fixing.
> 
> Several other people have been helping out with this lately, too.
> 
> Fortunately, your statement about hardly any of these bugs being fixed
> is not correct; quite a few of them have been fixed, some by the person

Hmm it wasn't entirely my own statement, discussed that with some
others.  But it's good to know that the statement is incorrect  :-)

It's still a shame that so many analyzed bugs remain unfixed though.
 
> I'll run some more regression hunts for regressions in 3.3.  This is now
> a background task that takes just a few minutes of work for each PR,
> plus a couple of hours of elapsed time, to identify the patch.

Just curious: What are the begin- and end points of your search?  My
impression so far has been that many many bugs are regressions from
2.95, and Wolfgang's comments confirmed this.  So for such old
regressions it's almost impossible to narrow the problem down to a
single patch, or even a week in which it was applied.

Greetz
Steven