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Re: Miscompilation of remainder expressions

Joe Buck wrote:

(off topic!)

On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 06:40:21PM -0500, Robert Dewar wrote: 
Hmmmm .. I wish some of the more important bugs in gcc received
the attention that this very unimportant issue is receiving :-)

I guess the difference is that lots of people can understand
this issue.


Yes, this phenomenon has been given a name, by Parkinson of Parkinson's
law fame: "bike shed".


Actually I don't think Parkinson uses this term. He states a similar
principle as:

* THE LAW OF TRIVIALITY: The time spent on any item of a committee's agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum of money involved.

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