[11601] in Athena Bugs
Re: [sao@MIT.EDU: NetProb ticket #1008, gcc 2.1 on the vax]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Tue Jan 11 17:56:02 1994
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 17:55:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: tjm@MIT.EDU (Tim McGovern)
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9401111549.AA08907@MIT.EDU>
Excerpts from mail: 11-Jan-94 [sao@MIT.EDU: NetProb ticke.. Tim
McGovern@MIT.EDU (2461)
> Here's your bug report on VAX gcc. This appears to me to be a clear
> case of a compiler error, something that you, as maintainer of the gnu
> locker, should report to gnu. We should of course first determine that
> there haven't been patches to the 2.1 release that deal this error.
Well, yes, I understood this. We're not asking if we should expend the
resources to fix the compiler.
It is a non-trivial effort just to install a current revision of the vax
gcc into the gnu locker and repeat the test. We're asking if you think
we should expend THAT effort.
-wdc
