Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 12:32:56 -0800 (PST)
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To: vischne AT ibm DOT net (root), djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: G++ can't optimise my code!
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At 05:30  11/7/1997 GMT, root wrote:
>In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 971106122033 DOT 4123G-100000 AT is>, eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il 
>says...
>>
>>
>>crashing.  Relax, the bugs are here to stay, and compilers are just
>>programs, no more, no less.  At least judging by the traffic on this
>>news group and on GNU groups related to compiler bugs, GCC has
>>relatively small amount of bugs, even when compiling C++ programs.
>
>Actually, I found a problem with g++.exe (under cygwin) when compiling
>a program that include <windows32/sockets.h> or <winsock.h>.  It seems
>to find bogus syntax errors in procedure declarations that gcc just passes
>by.  My guess is that the same thing occurs under the latest DJGPP's g++.
You should report it to the GNU people, if you haven't. See the GCC manual,
under "Bugs", for how and where. Note that they don't usually respond to bug
reports but apparently do read them.

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net