Bug maintenance

David Wohlferd dw@LimeGreenSocks.com
Sun May 8 22:06:00 GMT 2016


On 4/28/2016 12:23 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:35 AM, David Wohlferd <dw@limegreensocks.com> wrote:
>> As part of the work I've done on inline asm, I've been looking thru the bugs
>> for it.  There appear to be a number that have been fixed or overtaken by
>> events over the years, but the bug is still open.
>>
>> Is closing some of these old bugs of any value?
> Yes it is.  In fact this is how I got my start into GCC.
>
>> If so, how do I pursue this?
> If you go through the bug reports and have a low rate of false
> positives, I (and others) can get you permission to change the bug
> reports (I started out with a bug report only account too).

I'll do my best.  But it's not always clear what might trigger a 
debate.  I swear to you, I never expected 24414 to blow up the way it did.

dw



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