Re: Miscompilation of remainder expressions

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at cs dot tamu dot edu>]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Andrew Haley wrote:

| 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."

I would say that is a bit extreme.  I don't think we're going to
implement any of the solutions without giving people options to
disable the correct instruction generation when they don't care about
it.

-- Gaby