Don wrote:

> BTW - It's worth knowing that a significant part of the effort in fixing
> a bug (maybe 25% of the total time) is in creating a minimal test case.
> I've noticed that very few bug reports have completely minimal test
> cases. Reducing existing test cases is something that anyone can do.

Maybe bug writing guidelines specifically tailor-made for compiler test 
cases would be a good idea (e.g. "Make sure if someone else copy-pastes your 
code, it will compile (or fail in the way described).", etc). I find the 
bugzilla guidelines a bit too generic. Another thing is that they could be 
more "in your face" (pre-filled description?); the link at the top is hard 
to notice.

-- 
Tomek

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