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Re: What is wrong with Bugzilla? [Was: Re: GCC and Floating-Point]
- From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>
- To: Michael Veksler <VEKSLER at il dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Giovanni Bajo <giovannibajo at libero dot it>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Vincent Lefevre <vincent+gcc at vinc17 dot org>
- Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 23:59:39 -0400
- Subject: Re: What is wrong with Bugzilla? [Was: Re: GCC and Floating-Point]
- References: <OFA3607230.3197BBF0-ON43257010.003EFC6F-43257010.00542AB2@il.ibm.com>
On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 18:19 +0300, Michael Veksler wrote:
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> "Giovanni Bajo wrote on 29/05/2005 13:54:39:
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> > Vincent Lefevre <vincent+gcc@vinc17.org> wrote:
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> > > Perhaps because GCC developers think that GCC isn't buggy when the
> > > processor doesn't do the job for them? (I'm thinking of bug 323.)
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> > You are mistaken, we think GCC isn't buggy about 323 because the C/C++
> > standards do not tell us to do better than this. If you have higher
> > expectations about floating point and C/C++, you should file a bugreport
> > against the C/C++ standards.
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> If more than 50 people report it, independently, as a bug then it sure is
> a bug.
Which is why it's still open!
Whoops, you forgot that part didn't you :)
The problem with 323 isn't that we don't think it's really a bug, it's
that nobody has any plans to implement a fix for it other than "use SSE
math or a different arch".
--Dan