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Re: Fixing Bugs (Was: A Suggestion for Release Testing)
On 6/14/05, Scott Robert Ladd <scott.ladd@coyotegulch.com> wrote:
> I wish I could do more, which is why I made (what I hoped were)
> constructive suggestions for trying to get more people involved in
> fixing bugs.
For getting more people involved in fixing bugs they need those
bugs in plain C code (read: a testcase) presented to them, preferrably
with a (short) description what and why it is going wrong.
Useful suggestions about what one could do tend to be ignored or
end in endless back-and-forth mailings like this. Especially if the
discussion is about such broad field as FP correctness.
It may also help to have bugs collected beyond a meta-bug
(such as 323 seems to be).
Also GCC is not the only player involved here, but glibc is as
well.
Take a break and come back with results of actual work done,
this impresses people a lot more than (repeated) ranting about
gcc development in general.
Richard.