Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!decuac!shlump.nac.dec.com!tkou02.enet.dec.com!diamond From: diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Another C compiler bug Message-ID: <1990Nov2.042539.3289@tkou02.enet.dec.com> Date: 2 Nov 90 04:25:39 GMT References: <11565@sybase.sybase.com> Reply-To: diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Japan , Tokyo Lines: 31 In article langley@ds1.scri.fsu.edu (Randolph Langley) writes: >I got ANOTHER one [patch] yesterday from DEC - wish they would release >when the code was little more steady, instead of these unending patches. Please don't express wishes like that. If you wish to wait for the next release (waiting for a steadier release, as you say), instead of applying patches when available, you always have that option. Some of us are irritated when we have to wait, when we don't have options. >I refuse to yield to the temptation of making a smart remark about >users providing what little QC that DEC seems to be doing. 'Fraid I don't don't know any evidence that Digital's software QC is any better or worse than the general standard for the software industry. (Except for a few cases such as the VMS Ada compiler and VMS mathematical routines, but you're probably not interested in those.) [But I am also disgusted with the low general standard in the software industry. The only solutions I can suggest are: (1) don't buy defective software -- just do without it; or (1a) sue for refunds of purchase prices ("The vendor defrauded me -- this thing is labelled 'C compiler' but it isn't a C compiler"), go without the software, and "goto" (1).] Disclaimer: This entire article is personal opinion. I do not know if the company holds any relevant opinions, nor what they may be. -- Norman Diamond, Nihon DEC diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com (tkou02 is scheduled for demolition) We steer like a sports car: I use opinions; the company uses the rack.