Re: Radical proposal: skip 3.4

[Kean Johnston <jkj at sco dot com>]

> To be more precise, these patches are marked "wrong-code" where they
> in reality are "wrong-debug":
...
> I would like to remove the wrong-code markers on these, since we have
> the component "debug" for this (which these are all in, btw).  Any
> objections to that?

I certainly don't *object* ... I'm nowhere near active enough to have 
that loud a voice, but I would like to offer an opinion. I think people 
take wrong-code bugs more seriously than wrong-debug. Its an emotional 
thing, is just SOUNDS more serious. But I think they are equally 
serious. If the compiler has bugs that hamper the development process, 
be it mis-optimization or the inability to debug efficiently, it still 
slows the developer down just as much. Granted the wrong-compile bugs do 
have a more negative impact as they can affect correct program 
behaviour, but if leaving these bugs marked as wrong-code is likely to 
get them looked at before, say, documentation bugs (as most doc writers 
will lament, nobody ever reads it anyway!), then I think its a good thing.

Kean