From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,751d508677a5add1 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-15?Q?Yannick_Duch=EAne_=28Hibou57=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Reporting bugs in GNAT (was: [Ada] made me hate programming) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:29:32 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <8f469661-370c-4484-82d8-f1b365455e0f@w12g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> <98aa58b3-50fc-418d-9f72-524b5a23c89d@t10g2000yqg.googlegroups.com> <87hbilt6ua.fsf_-_@ludovic-brenta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 4DAVr2KhxAahdrPcUWQi/w.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 User-Agent: Opera Mail/10.61 (Win32) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13678 Date: 2010-08-23T23:29:32+02:00 List-Id: Le Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:25:01 +0200, Ludovic Brenta = a =E9crit: > I've done that in the past myself, resulting in a > quick fix after that; see http://gcc.gnu.org/PR29015 to see one exampl= e. Submited 2008-04-09, fixed 2008-04-16. Not more than a week. As you are there: do you know the limit number of lines for a bug = reproducer (my main matter actually) ? And is it OK to have mixed langua= ge = like Ada and a bit of C ? And is it OK to submit a gnatchop file the sam= e = as AdaCore seems to requires ? (I feel to remember I read it somewhere) -- = * 3 lines of concise statements is readable, 10 pages of concise = statements is unreadable ; * 3 lines of verbose statements may looks unuseful, 10 pages of verbose = = statements will never looks too much pedantic