On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 06:48:17PM -0400, Kevin McBride wrote: > I am hoping that the steering committee will order a through research on > the bug.
Kevin, what you don't seem to understand is that the SC can't order anyone to do anything. The SC has no employees, doesn't sign paychecks. GCC is a volunteer organization. True, a number of contributors draw a salary from their companies for their GCC work, but their management, not the SC, tells them what to work on. The SC does have some powers: it can refuse to allow certain kinds of changes into GCC, approves release plans put forward by the release manager, and approves the people who will be maintainers to various parts of the compiler. Once in its entire history, the SC banned someone from its mailing lists (this was back in the egcs days, and the guy was a complete whacko who made escalating threats against the release manager, including "I'm going to force your company to fire you" and "I've found out where you live"). But even if the SC were persuaded that you are entirely correct, the most it could do would be to ask for a volunteer to research your bug. And your bug is only one of 3,114 currently open gcc bugs (according to a Bugzilla query I just did), and I am unpersuaded that it is a particularly important one.
