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Re: Miscompilation of remainder expressions
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 06:40:21PM -0500, Robert Dewar wrote:
> Hmmmm .. I wish some of the more important bugs in gcc received
> the attention that this very unimportant issue is receiving :-)
>
> I guess the difference is that lots of people can understand
> this issue.
Yes, this phenomenon has been given a name, by Parkinson of Parkinson's
law fame: "bike shed".
Someone even made a web site dedicated to the phenomenon:
http://www.bikeshed.org/
"Parkinson shows how you can go in to the board of directors and
get approval for building a multi-million or even billion dollar
atomic power plant, but if you want to build a bike shed you will
be tangled up in endless discussions."
As for the issue at hand, we've basically exhausted it; every reasonable
combination of solutions has been proposed, as well as "don't fix it".