Hello All,
Please accept my apologies if the questions below are too naive!
I have several questions about bugzilla and GCC. I am not very familiar
with bugzilla, and I am not familiar with the configuration of GCC
bugzilla in particular.
I cannot understand when should I use or not bugzilla. More precisely, I
have several examples of "bugs" but I didn't use bugzilla for them
1. I regularily test the latest gcc trunk with -flto on a medium sized
program. And it always crashes, with a sisegv fatal error. My feeling is
that it should not crash that way (at least, I would prefer a message
such as not enough memory to compile with -flto). Should I report that
as a bug on bugzilla? I am not able at all to reduce that example to
something smaller.
For the record, that program is Jacques Pitrat's MALICE system
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/jacques.pitrat/MALICE.html
about 370KLOC (less than 14Mbytes total) of C files (all 2947 C files
are generated and usually short, MALICE is bootstrapped that is
generates all its C code; the C code is not understandable!). I would
imagine that it is not big enough to reach the limits of my 8Gb desktop!
Should I report that as a bug?
2. a couple of weeks ago, I submitted a patch regarding gengtype for
plugins (the patch was greatly improved by Rafael Espindola
espind...@google.com) and the patch did correct a bug.
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-10/msg00379.html
but I never bothered registering it (since making the initial patch was
easier than reporting a bug). This is also the case of
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-10/msg00809.html
(fatal error when failing to register a pass)
3. On the MELT branch, I regularily find bugs & correct them, and it did
happen that someone registered a MELT bug on the bugzilla; I did correct
it but AFAIR was not permitted to close the bug. Sometimes I am sad of
not being able to report MELT bugs on bugzilla and to close them when I
feel I have covered them.
My current intuition is that bugzilla might be reserved for bugs of the
trunk mostly for which a small testcase is available, and which is a
bug affecting many users (this is not the case of all the bugs
mentionned above).
So when should I use bugzilla? I am a bit "scared" to use it!
I hope I am not offending anyone, and I admit that I am not familiar
with bugzilla in general and its GCC policy & setting in particular.
I also am guessing that bugzilla is less important for the GCC community
than in some other big free software communities. It does not seem to be
a major communication channel.
Regards.
--
Basile STARYNKEVITCH http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/
email: basile<at>starynkevitch<dot>net mobile: +33 6 8501 2359
8, rue de la Faiencerie, 92340 Bourg La Reine, France
*** opinions {are only mines, sont seulement les miennes} ***
