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Re: Miscompilation of remainder expressions
Robert Dewar writes:
> 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.
Mm, but although the problem being dicussed here is trivial, some of
the proposed solutions aren't. As the saying goes, "the cure is worse
than the disease."
Andrew.