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On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 22:14:13 +0100, Richard Dawe
<rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> sat on a tribble, which squeaked:

>Subscribe to the djgpp-announce list to receive announcements about newly
>DJGPP packages and other software. See http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ .

Sorry, my mailbox gets flooded with enough trivia and spam. Another
50-odd messages a week about yet another bugfix with an obscure usage
of the g77 fortrash compiler won't turn my crank, if you know what I
mean. Unless you can get a filtered version regarding just the basic
tools?

>The packages I have for gcc 2.95.3 are dated March 30th 2001. The alpha
>packages I have for gcc 3.0 are dated May 24th 2001 (see v2gnu/alphas/ in
>the DJGPP archive on Simtel.NET).

Stable?

>This bug is quite subtle, which is perhaps why it has slipped through the
>net.

Yup. It's gotta be pretty subtle if I only managed to run into it
about eight times in the last four days(!).


>All software has bugs - deal with it. Actually I would expect a third
>category of bugs - undetected bugs in existing functionality.

No, that was my first category.

>Have you constructed a test case that exhibits the bug and reported it to
>the GCC maintainers? (I must admit that I have not - I got distracted by
>bugfixing my own software. ;) )

No, I was in too much of a hurry to get my stuff working so I fixed my
missing return statements. :P
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