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Re: GNATS survey
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- To: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth at ices dot utexas dot edu>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Giovanni Bajo <giovannibajo at libero dot it>, Volker Reichelt <reichelt at igpm dot rwth-aachen dot de>, Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt at mathematik dot uni-ulm dot de>, Falk Hueffner <falk dot hueffner at student dot uni-tuebingen dot de>
- Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 23:12:40 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: Re: GNATS survey
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305051206280.24696-100000@gandalf.ices.utexas.edu>
On Mon, 5 May 2003, Wolfgang Bangerth wrote:
> Yesterday, I had meant to spend my day skydiving, but then we had 100%
> cloud cover over central Texas and I ended up mailing with Giovanni about
> the state of GNATS and a couple of suggestions he had. The upshot was: we
> would like to go through all the C++/C/Optimization PRs and check them for
> validity. Of public interest in this respect is that we also would like to
> change one of the policies in assigning states to PRs. Here's what:
middle-end PRs probably also fit in much the same grouping - in terms or
general nature of the bug reports, and arbitrariness of which category the
PRs are in (and there aren't that many middle-end PRs). And a fair number
of "c" PRs should be moved to "optimization" or "middle-end" if they don't
look anything to do with the C front end itself (just problems the user
found compiling C code).
> - thus, we would like to reserve the "analyzed" state for PRs that are
> both confirmed and equipped with a small testcase
> NOTE: we're presently talking only about C++/C/opt PRs.
Where confirmed includes not just that the compiler behaves as the user
claims, but that this is indeed incorrect: if the bug report is that code
is wrongly accepted/rejected, it is indeed wrong for the compiler to
accept/reject that code, as you note:
> - we will find a couple of PRs that we are not sure whether they are
> standard conforming or not; it would be great if some of the language
> gurus could volunteer to look at some of them as we find them so that we
> could be sure that after the clean-up everything that is "analyzed"
> really is.
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk