On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > I've been going over the bugs > (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/ma/lDebian_GCC_maintainers,gcc,packages.debian.org,.html), > and have been retitling arch-specific ones.
Thanks for this. It really helps. > I'd appreciate it very much if the porters could go over these bugs once > again. Real gcc bugs typically need to be forwarded upstream, and the > chances of upstream responses increase greatly if bugs are detailed: > - they contain a minimal example showing the problem (use #if 0 .. #endif > to divide and conquer) and > - they show exactly which optimisations (-O* -f* -fno*) trigger the problem > (rather than simply -On). > I realise it's a lot of work to figure this out, but it definitely increases > chances the problems get fixed. I already closed one today with an upload that I did yesterday (was just installed today). I'll look further into the rest after I finish the new binutils packages. In the meantime, I'll test as much of the others as I can and hopefully provide some better feedback than what's in some of those bug reports (at least for Alpha). C
