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Re: Future of gccbug


On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 10:18:21PM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com> writes:
> | 
> | Yes, it goes into "Kenner mode" because (the last time I investigated this,
> 
> And Dan keeps saying the contrary. :-(

Well, maybe you and I both have similarly-odd mail client settings.
Who knows?


> | One little-known fact that has occasionally proved useful to me is that
> | the mailing list software itself can serve up indices and retrieve old
> | messages.  Before the web archives had a "view in raw mode" link, for
> | example, and saving a patch from gcc-patches would change '>' into '&gt;',
> | I would get the useful form of patches by sending a retrieval message to
> | the list software, and getting a text version that way.  You could do the
> | same thing with gcc-bugs, although it would be somewhat inconvenient.
> 
> I think that works only if one has the thread number.

Yep; it's in the Return-Path header, IIRC.

> What was
> possible with GNATS is querying with the PR number.

I did say it would be inconvenient.  :-(


-- 
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
    - Brian W. Kernighan


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