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Re: IRA for GCC 4.4
On 2008/4/28 Dave Korn <dave.korn@artimi.com> wrote:
> J.C. Pizarro wrote on :
>
>
> > On 2008/4/28 Ben Elliston wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 21:45 +0200, J.C. Pizarro wrote:
> >>
> >> > Don't be stupid!
> >>
> >> Could you be a bit more civil, please? It's fairly unusual for people
> >> on this list to talk to each other in this way.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Ben
> >
> > Excuse me, i'm not the unique and first person that says you stupid, GCC
> > did it too.
>
> Even if that were so, two wrongs do not make a right.
It's your personal comment.
For me, they do not make a right when they are 7 wrongs.
>
> > The "stupid" word can be a help, not only an offense.
> >
> > gcc/cp/decl.c: and in case doing stupid register allocation.
> > gcc/c-aux-info.c: user may do something really stupid, like
> > creating a brand new
>
> The crucial difference you've overlooked is that all these comments are
> describing some /thing/ as stupid, not some /person/. When you want to offer
> what you hope will be /constructive/ criticism, try to de-personalise the
> issues; it makes for more productive social interactions.
What about the stupid user in
gcc/alias.c: but stupid user tricks can produce them, so don't die ?
But the stupid things are made by humans, never by things.
You can't de-personalise the stupid things made by humans,
so it's better to say them stupid to persons who did stupid things
better than to unfear things.
>
> cheers,
> DaveK
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