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Re: Reporting bugs: there is nothing to gain in frustrating reporters
On 2005-06-19 11:42:04 +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre <vincent+gcc@vinc17.org> writes:
>
> | I don't understand your "IEEE = IEEE". To make things clearer:
> | IEEE 754 explicitly allows an extended exponent range. The ISO C
> | language doesn't. But this can be solved by stores, then there
> | wouldn't by any problem as far as the standards are concerned.
>
> Vincent --
>
> I recommend you google GCC's archive for past discussions on this
> issue. This is not the first time it is being discussed. If I
> remember correctly, core back-end people looked at it and concluded
> that fixing it requires a *major* rewrite of the back-end, if at all
> possible [1].
OK, I'm not saying that this is simple. I'm just saying that it *can*
be solved. Even if the fix is complex, it is not a reason to mark the
bug as INVALID.
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