On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 17:36, Jeffrey A Law wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 17:25 +0100, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > However, in the mean-time I'm stuck. I can't build my world anymore, so > > I can't test the compiler.... > I understand. But realize that I'm trying to ultimately save you time > in the long run -- in the mean time you can pretty easily hack around > these problems. > > > Maybe we should start a timer on this one. > I would recommend against. Every one of these missing calls to compute > the status bits properly is a latent bug waiting to be exposed. I'd > much rather bite the bullet and get them fixed now. The fact that it's > affecting a lot of people keep the coals hot on my feet :-) It's probably too late to do anything about this one this time around, but isn't this why we have branches? The whole point of having branch developments is so that potentially destabilizing chanes (such as adding/changing major interfaces) can be done without causing this level of disruption to other developers. R.
