surprising precision

[John S. Fine]

Steve Teale wrote:
> Congratulations on a helpful answer.
Thanks for the compliment.  Despite my knowing much less about GCC than 
the experts who usually answer here, I think I sometimes have a better 
insight into what is confusing the OP.  Then I try to provide a helpful 
answer.  I think I did that this time.

>  Yours was the first one that did
> not display the almost conventional GCC guru arrogance.
But I have to disagree with you there.  The GCC gurus typically 
answering in this mailing list, including in this thread, do a great 
job.  I'm very impressed with the accuracy and helpfulness of answers in 
this mailing list.  I usually learn something.

I didn't initially answer your post, because I didn't want to dilute the 
discussion about precision with a lot of meta discussion about GCC 
gurus.  But now that it is already diluted by other replies, I didn't 
want to leave the impression that I agree with you about that 
"arrogance" of the GCC gurus.