On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Andrew Haley wrote: | Robert Dewar writes: | > Joe Buck wrote: | > | > (off topic!) | > | > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 06:40:21PM -0500, Robert Dewar wrote: | > >> Hmmmm .. I wish some of the more important bugs in gcc received | > >> the attention that this very unimportant issue is receiving :-) | > >> | > >> I guess the difference is that lots of people can understand | > >> this issue. | > > | > > Yes, this phenomenon has been given a name, by Parkinson of Parkinson's | > > law fame: "bike shed". | > | > Actually I don't think Parkinson uses this term. He states a similar | > principle as: | > | > * THE LAW OF TRIVIALITY: The time spent on any item of a committee's | > agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum of money involved. | | Mm, but although the problem being dicussed here is trivial, some of | the proposed solutions aren't. As the saying goes, "the cure is worse | than the disease."
I would say that is a bit extreme. I don't think we're going to implement any of the solutions without giving people options to disable the correct instruction generation when they don't care about it. -- Gaby
