Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/01/30/03:25:18
On Wed, 29 Jan 1997 afn03257 AT afn DOT org wrote:
>
> >to comment on something that I didn't understand. I use GCC on
> >different platforms since version 1.4.0, which was about 10 years ago,
>
> Not posible unless this is 1999.
Isn't it? ;-)
OK, so it's 8 years (still qualifies to be ``about 10 years'', IMHO).
> Did they debug or just find bugs? There is a difference. Dedicated
> programmers? You call someone who looks through those sources, having
> not coded it themself, to find a bug not dedicated? then to make the
> patch and send it in? I'd call that dedicated.
Dedicated is open to interpretation. Here's mine: a dedicated programmer
is somebody whose daytime job is to support a given program/package, or
who invests most of their working week in it. That is certainly NOT the
case with neither most of the GNU project, nor with DJGPP.
> >*Any* software has bugs, no matter how long it is developed. In fact,
> >one of the definitions of software is ``lines of codes with bugs'' ;-).
>
> What??
> That is exactly what I said, and you said I was wrong.
We seem to agree on more and more points as we go. So why are we still
arguing?
> This is true, however, technically you could patch the comercial
> software yourself with a debugger.
Incidentally, that's what I did sometimes because I couldn't get the
vendor to let me have a patched version in reasonable time. But this can
hardly qualify as a good way to maintain software.
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