Request for bugzilla submitters/maintainers: "Reportad against" field
Joe Buck
Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM
Tue Mar 23 19:48:00 GMT 2004
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 01:48:42PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> By way of explanation of the purpose of "Reported Against"
>
> Reported against was originally "Version", which makes no sense in the
> face of known to work/known to fail.
>
> Thus, it simply became a way to determine what version of gcc the bug was
> reported against, as opposed to what versions it exists in.
> In fact, unless the submitter chose the wrong version, i'm not sure it
> should ever be changed during the life of the bug.
In the couple of cases I looked at, the submitter himself mentioned a
released GCC version that had the bug, but still marked "3.4.0" or "3.5.0"
as "Reported against".
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