From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Frank Schmitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug Database? Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:04:55 +0200 Organization: Hamme net, kren mer och nimmi Message-ID: References: <17717.20433.183356.106695@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17718.15996.727727.91417@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161248977 29594 80.91.229.2 (19 Oct 2006 09:09:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:09:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 19 11:09:37 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GaTu3-0002dk-U4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:09:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GaTu2-0003Yv-Pb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:09:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GaTky-0007oz-SX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:00:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GaTkx-0007od-Vi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:00:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GaTkx-0007oX-I8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:00:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GaTkx-0004Wp-FM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:00:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GaTkr-00010i-38 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:59:57 +0200 Original-Received: from dhcp81.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.71.81]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:59:57 +0200 Original-Received: from ich by dhcp81.uni-koblenz.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:59:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp81.uni-koblenz.de X-Face: :EL9TzGRN){7|oE2~xQ8Q(VjpjsXgX$~gi&rYD5J5p)$w\Thdl~v:7h`/n)J!8nXT%_+Wj6}@EHM8}QbA(9nX-wrQ:ch1%DauV[?kFasXUcnL#+"K8zOx&$@/M'/}, q-eztaJra1|?C+p$h\2XnK-HB"8_U List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:60912 Archived-At: Nick Roberts writes: > > As a point of reference GDB has 1218 open bugs in its database and still > > gets released roughly on a six monthly cycle. > > > > I suspect it means there is insufficient priority to fixing GDB bugs. > > It depends how you measure things. They have more people using a recent > version of GDB and more people fixing bugs. There's a clear message: if you > want it fixed for the next version then you may have to fix it yourself. Which results in the fact that gdb is since years completely unusable for C++ programs relying on templated functions (so basically all C++ programs which aren't just pimped C). So most C++ developers I know have switched to the "free as in free beer but not free as in free software" debugger from Sun Studio which in contrast to gdb works really well. -- Did you ever realize how much text fits in eighty columns? If you now consider that a signature usually consists of up to four lines, this gives you enough space to spread a tremendous amount of information with your messages. So seize this opportunity and don't waste your signature with bullshit nobody will read.