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Re: pedantic: not fussing enough?
- To: Carlos Pita <cpitaar at yahoo dot com dot ar>
- Subject: Re: pedantic: not fussing enough?
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 09:13:16 +0100 (BST)
- cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Carlos Pita wrote:
> I think it will take some discussion until any of these observations could
> be said to be a bug.
> Perhaps this is not the right list for this kind of discussion anyway.
> Please give me advice.
If the compiler fails to diagnose an invalid program, that is a bug and
should be filed as such; the appropriate class to give in the bug report
is "accepts-illegal". If the bug report is incorrect, it will probably be
closed as such within the next few years; if correct, the problem might be
fixed immediately, or in a few years' time, but if you post to the mailing
lists rather than to GNATS then the latter option is unlikely to happen.
--
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk