Re: Reporting bugs: there is nothing to gain in frustrating reporters

[Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>]

On Jun 16, 2005, at 10:58 AM, Scott Robert Ladd wrote:

> Daniel Berlin wrote:
> > Again, *please* provide examples other than "The bugmasters are mean".
>
> Don't invent quotes. I never said anyone was "mean." And other people
> have provided explicitly links to germane bugs.

Four out of how many?
The explantion for all of those four:
  http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21067
"
Note GCC does not know about the rounding mode, in fact the round mode 
is only changeable in C99
by the #pragma which GCC does not do right now and I thought that is a 
different PR already."

How could this be considered rude, I was just stating a fact.


  http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21032

"
Note neg just flips a bit so it is correct anyways and there is no loss 
of precession.

This also happens on ppc darwin, I don't know what to make of this.  A 
C person has to comment to say
something about this.
"

I said someone else has to comment on this, so I was saying I don't 
know for sure.

  http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19092
Huh, there was no negative thing in there at all from me or either 
Wolfgang.
Maybe "This should be low priority, since we only accept invalid code. 
"  but Wolfgang
found a rejects valid case in about an hour.

  http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12963
This is the only one which was closed, in fact I still think it should 
be a warning
unconditional.

As you can see that from above, only one really shows the case and it 
was corrected
and JSM gave a better way of doing it.

-- Hitler (just to stop this thread)