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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Compiler bug reporing (was: Re: Zortech bug #24)
Message-ID: <2706@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 12 Sep 90 18:32:13 GMT
References: <17.26EA603B@ananke.stgt.sub.org> <1430@proto.COM> <1520@lupine.NCD.COM>
Organization: Data I/O Corporation; Redmond, WA
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In article <1520@lupine.NCD.COM> rfg@NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette) writes:
<In article <1430@proto.COM< joe@proto.COM (Joe Huffman) writes:
<<In article <17.26EA603B@ananke.stgt.sub.org<, kaiser@ananke.stgt.sub.org 
<<You may mail your bug reports to the engineers, tech support, and tech
<<writers by sending them to 'zortech-bugs@proto.com' or 
<<'uunet!proto!zortech-bugs'.  Posting them on the net is probably 
<<inappropriate most of the time.
<I could not disagree more.  I have in the past posted innumerable bug
<reports on various C++ language processors here (mostly for cfront and
<for g++).  Many readers of this newsgroup have thanked me for this effort
<to make both users and vendors aware of the current shortcommings of
<these C++ language processor products.

I think perhaps you misunderstand. *Anyone* can subscribe to the zortech-bugs
list (our competitors even subscribe to it!). If you post to the bug list,
anyone subscribing to it gets a copy. This means that only those interested
in seeing it see it. It's an open forum, nothing is being swept under the
rug.

<If seeing bug reports for your products posted to the net bothers you, I
<believe that there is a simple solution.  It's called testing.

What bothers me is *not* getting the bug reports at all. Posting them to
the zortech-bug list ensures that they don't disappear off the net news
horizon if I don't log in for a few days (I *do* go on vacation now and
then!).

We believe in helping our customers solve their programming problems,
and being open about bugs and workarounds helps them get their job done.