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

[Zack Weinberg]

The following reply was made to PR c++/8889; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
To: Felix von Leitner <felix-gcc@fefe.de>
Cc: bangerth@dealii.org, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: c++/8889: g++ 3.2.1 (also 3.2 it) miscompile Qt
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:25:09 -0800

 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