Re: 2 days till Bug Horizon
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 11:06:29AM +0100, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
> > > > Almost none of the bug reports against gcc or g++ describing internal errors
> > > > are valid, in a sense that they contain a valid and shortest possible test
> > > > case, and/or a backtrace, and any other things GCC upstream people would
> > > > need to fix the bugs.
> > >
> > > It is not realistic. Almost all "internal errors" of the compiler are
> > > triggered only by large and complicated programs. Most of the time, the
> > > error disappears when you try to distill the test case.
> >
> > I've seen several bug reports describing internal errors, and they included
> > kilobyte-long testcase. I guess it's a matter of knowing the language and
> > the compiler enough to produce one.
>
> Uhhh... just one note on this... I happen to have an amd k6 233 which
> gives me at least on or two 'internal errors' on every kernel compilation.
> Just looking what file it was, removing the (obviously corrupt) .o file,
> and restarting compilation works.
I was not referring to any hardware-related compilation problems, but exact
and reproducible compiler errors on Alpha.
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