Reporting bugs: there is nothing to gain in frustrating reporters

[Andrew Pinski]

On Jun 16, 2005, at 10:11 AM, Mark Hahn wrote:

>>> I'm answering that since this is plainly wrong. Bug 21809 was
>>> closed by yourself on 2005-05-29. This is not 1999!
>>
>> You deny that Bug 21809 is the same bug as Bug 323, which was closed 
>> in
>> 1999?
>>
>> Again, this is a place where you disagree that this should be 
>> considered
>> a "bug", but refuse to believe that reasonable people can disagree on
>> it.
>
> the question then becomes whether GCC is helped or harmed by
> its current policy of unpredictable excess precision.
>
> it's quite unfortunate that gcc responders feel so free to vent
> their annoyance about this.  Pinski, for instance, is absurdly
> unhelpful in suggesting that the bug reporter just abandon x87.

Well abandoning x87 was a joke, I was trying to get the point across
that this is long standing "problem" with x87.  If you go and search
you will see this comes up every year since at least 1998 before
EGCS was officially GCC.

-- Pinski