Comments on Patching GCC

[Andrew Pinski]

On Sep 24, 2004, at 2:43 PM, Devang Patel wrote:
> I am not sure this is true in reality. Look at the last 100 patches 
> posted on gcc-patch. How many of them has bugzilla reference ?

Actually at this point, more than 50% of them do because users are 
starting
to use 4.0.0 and file bug reports against it.  But before stage3, there 
were
less than 50% of the patches were to file a bug report.  Another reason
why people don't file a bug report before submitting the patch is 
because
they have a patch already to fix the bug they were looking into.

> http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html#patches does not ask bugzilla 
> reference for new features.

But that is because the main use for bugzilla is for users rather than
developers for filing bugs/enhancements.  There are a huge amount of
enhancements filed in bugzilla already, almost 500 bugs.

The main reason why I file a bug report is either I don't have time to
look into the problem or I know I am going to take a long time to fix
the bug in the first place.

-- Pinski