From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Length of unbounded_string.
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:05:26 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2011-10-27T11:05:26+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <j8bdtm$1hk$2@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2r51yq0bx.fsf@pushface.org
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:56:50 +0100, Simon Wright wrote:
> "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
>
>> Even people who should know better do it (and I know I have, too). It's
>> a pain to create a reproducing example, but a lot of time when I do
>> that, it becomes clear what is wrong (and it often is "operator
>> error"!).
>
> Me too.
+1.
Though the other side is: making the reproducible test case can be
significant work in itself,. By the time you have five of them open
against a tool (all real bugs : clearly not written in Ada!) you begin to
wish you could charge the helpdesk for your time... it's easier than
justifying charging it to the project.
- Brian
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2011-10-25 9:37 Length of unbounded_string ldries46
2011-10-25 17:57 ` Jeffrey Carter
2011-10-28 2:54 ` ldries46
2011-10-28 4:55 ` Jeffrey Carter
2011-10-25 20:23 ` Vadim Godunko
2011-10-25 21:28 ` Simon Wright
2011-10-26 4:41 ` Simon Wright
2011-10-26 22:47 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-10-27 8:05 ` AdaMagica
2011-10-27 8:56 ` Simon Wright
2011-10-27 11:05 ` Brian Drummond [this message]
2011-10-28 3:12 ` ldries46
[not found] ` <4eafc489$0$3081$703f8584@textnews.kpn.nl>
2011-11-01 18:22 ` Jeffrey Carter
2011-10-27 11:28 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-27 12:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-27 13:31 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-27 14:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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2011-10-16 8:48 ldries46
2011-10-16 9:59 ` Niklas Holsti
2011-10-16 12:06 ` ldries46
2011-10-16 12:52 ` ldries46
2011-10-16 13:00 ` Niklas Holsti
2011-10-17 7:39 ` ldries46
2011-10-17 19:49 ` Niklas Holsti
2011-10-18 11:47 ` ldries46
2011-10-18 17:54 ` Niklas Holsti
2011-10-19 2:38 ` ldries46
2011-10-19 6:07 ` Niklas Holsti
2011-10-24 15:10 ` ldries46
2011-10-19 6:37 ` Simon Wright
2011-10-19 14:48 ` Alex Mentis
2011-10-24 17:04 ` ldries46
2011-10-16 10:14 ` Vinzent Hoefler
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