c++/8889: g++ 3.2.1 (also 3.2 it) miscompile Qt

[Zack Weinberg]

Felix von Leitner <felix-gcc@fefe.de> writes:

> I made a bug report and you refuse to even make a feeble attempt to
> reproduce it.  Instead you first claim that it's an ABI problem (which
> is not and I wrote that), then you claim you need more information (you
> don't, I included everything that is necessary to reproduce the problem)
> and then you claim that I withhold necessary information.

As a matter of project policy, the GCC team expects you to do more of
the work of isolating the bug.  I would like to draw your attention to
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html, which clearly states that you are
expected to provide a self-contained, already preprocessed, as small
as feasible, source file which is being miscompiled, along with an
explanation of what it is supposed to do and what it does instead.

We make this requirement because our experience is that, in a
circumstance such as yours, we would be unable to reproduce the bug by
downloading the software packages you mentioned and compiling them
ourselves.  Tiny differences in system headers, for instance, can
perturb the bug out of manifesting.  We would then have wasted a great
deal of effort.

zw