Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!lion!dmmooney
From: dmmooney@lion.waterloo.edu (Dave Mooney)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Bugs in PC compilers
Message-ID: <14167@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 30 May 89 00:54:13 GMT
References: <2530@Portia.Stanford.EDU> <89May29.140126edt.10987@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu>
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In article <89May29.140126edt.10987@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu> bradb@ai.toronto.edu (Brad Brown) writes:
>In article <2530@Portia.Stanford.EDU> armin@Portia.Stanford.EDU (Ronald Mayer) writes:
>>   Do people in this news-group care, [about bug reports]
>>or would posting problems like
>>this be unnecessary clutter wasting bandwidth here.  
>
>Perhaps if everyone who writes a bug report would start the subject line
>with "BUG REPORT:" and then the machine name, those who don't want to
>read them could add "BUG REPORT" to their kill files...
>

Good idea.  There's no reason for me to scratch my head puzzling over a piece
code which doesn't work when it's the compiler's fault.
I have enough trouble tracking down MY bugs without having to deal with
Borland/Microsoft/Symantec's bugs as well.  Especially if someone else out
in net-land has already figured out the problem.

daveq
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This is the University that still censors rec.humor.funny.  Why would they agree
with anything that I say?