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Re: Policy for wrong-code bugs
- From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
- To: Volker Reichelt <reichelt at igpm dot rwth-aachen dot de>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:31:06 -0700
- Subject: Re: Policy for wrong-code bugs
- References: <200407122010.i6CKA0mI002736@relay.rwth-aachen.de>
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:10:02PM +0200, Volker Reichelt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> our current policy with bug reports is:
>
> Close a PR, if the bug
> a) is not a regression, and
> b) is fixed on mainline.
>
> IMHO this is not a good idea in the case of wrong-code bugs:
> I think we should close them, only if they are fixed on mainline *and*
> all open release branches (or if explicitly marked as WON'T FIX on those
> branches).
An intermediate policy would be to close them when a compiler that fixes
the bug is actually released to the public.
In any case, it would be nice to be able to track wrong-code bugs that
exist in current, shipping compilers.