Bug#150050: acknowledged by developer (fixed in gcc-2.95.3)

[martin@v.loewis.de (Martin v. Loewis)]

"" <0pg8j7aoyw001@sneakemail.com> writes:

> However, as I understand it, the bug indicated a problem with the
> compiler (an internal error), so other programs compiled with the
> compiler would fail.  

That's incorrect. If the compiler encounters an internal error, it
refuses to compile. So programs that suffer from this compiler bug
cannot be compiled - they won't get a chance to fail themselves
because of that.

> If I find a bug in the stable compiler for Debian, I would regard it
> as important to report the bug.  Can you please let me know if it
> would be important to report a similar type bug in the future?

Internal compiler errors should always be reported. In many cases, a
trivial change in the compiler will fix the problem, so newer
compilers often have many of these problems fixed. Backporting those
changes to older compilers is time-consuming (because of the sheer
number of such bugs), so it usually won't happen unless some other
important package cannot be compiled, and no work-around (by
reformulating the code of that other package) can be found.

Regards,
Martin



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