regression hunt status, question about reports to mailing list

[Wolfgang Bangerth]

> > optimization bugs). A little public pressure seems appropriate.
> 
> The people I've notified are all very active contributors to GCC, and it
> doesn't surprise me that they haven't fixed the regressions immediately.

Please don't get me wrong, I very much appreciate the work everyone is 
doing on gcc, and I'm far from condemning anyone for doing one thing and 
not the other.

It's just that I see that there are more than 1800 open bug reports (of 
which alone 590 are for C++), and that reports are filed at a much higher 
rate than they are fixed. Sometimes I just wished we had more focus on 
fixing existing bugs than introducing yet another middle-end optimization. 
But that's just my opinion.

With public pressure I meant "bringing the existence of regressions and 
the number of open problems" to the attention it deserves. Not to anyone 
in particular, but to the community of developers.

Regards
  Wolfgang

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