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Re: GCC 3.3 ICE policy
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:18:54AM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> > > If a PR meets the following criteria:
> > > - It is an ICE that occurs after a valid error message
> > > - It occurs on the 3.3 branch
> > > - It is already fixed on the mainline
> > > I am going to mark the PR as WONTFIX.
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 09:40, Joe Buck wrote:
> > Is really the correct way to use Bugzilla? After all, we DO plan to
> > fix the bug, in fact we already have. 3.4 will contain the bug fix.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:23:22AM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> Well, sort of. We often haven't really so much fixed that particular
> bug, as we have (for example) written a new parser which doesn't have
> the old problem. It's not like there's a patch to point people at to
> apply to 3.3 that will fix the problem.
The folks who filed the bugs don't care if we fix them by means of a
patch, or by rewriting the affected code entirely.
> > Shouldn't we close the bugs instead as fixed in 3.4?
>
> I don't have a strong feeling; the important thing to me is that the
> bugs are no longer open. If there's a consensus to use FIXED rather
> than WONTFIX, that's OK with me.
If I were the bug-filer, I would interpret "WONTFIX" as "you will have to
live with this bug forever". That's not the message we want to send.