Re: Mail search problem.

[craig at jcb-sc dot com]

>It was suggested that I look up some history on an i386 floating
>point problem in the mail archives.  There seems to be something amiss.
>
>A search on "All words" for "i386 float" generates 190 matches.
>Since I was told that Craig was the author, I tried:
>
>"i386 float burley".
>
>I get 21 hits, all but one of which are "egcs-bugs mailing list
>archives by thread".  (I didn't see ANY of those in the prior
>query, but it's possible I missed them.)  In any case that's
>not particularly useful.
>
>Boolean expression "rbug and craig" generates an equally entertaining
>but equally unhelpful result.  (I'm looking for rbug issues, 
>specifically.)
>
>I realize that Bitrange is being kind enough to provide this
>service, but they might be interested in undestanding why their
>search engine doesn't seem to be doing what would be expected.
>Removing the indicies from the search would help, at least.

Haven't investigated much of what you say above, but I think perhaps
you'll get better results by looking for emails in the egcs archives
with subject headings including item like:

  FLOATING-POINT INCONSISTENCIES

(As I recall, it was all-caps.)

        tq vm, (burley)