Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Aug 1998 11:49:01 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: pre egcs-1.1 testing and Linux 2.1.x |
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On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, David S. Miller wrote: > > However, I will continue to ignore developers who don't say "we > will fix it eventually", but instead say "let's remove the feature, > we'll never be able to fix it". > > And the egcs team has not said the latter. But they will turn the > feature off until such time as the fix is made, since it generates > incorrect code.
So how do you explain that one person already stepped up and said he has had a patch for this problem for two years now?
And the patch wasn't a matter of disabling the feature.
How long do we have to go round the merry-go-round before the gcc people start admitting to bugs instead of blaming the kernel when something goes wrong?
Linus
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