On 13-07-05 07:42 AM, Niall Douglas wrote:
My code, on the other hand, I don't trust and I assume it to be riddled with severe bugs which I'm too incompetent to perceive. This isn't a humility thing, it's an empirical thing: I have had showstopping bugs found in my open source *four* *years* after that code went stable and was being used in anger by banks, hedge funds, the US DoD for military simulations, automotive and avionics. And I had worked on that code for four years thereafter, and never saw nor found those problems not once in that time period.
To which the only natural conclusion must be that I was, and am, too incompetent to find these things on my own. Hence my hesitancy to cast aspersions on others. Once the code base is stable and fully ported to Boost, then I'm happy to start work on a clean ThreadSanitiser during which I'll no doubt discover and fix a ton of problems in my code. Only then will I feel comfortable in blaming others for problems I have found.
So you're afraid to file a bug report only to be told the bug is in your code or in your understanding? This happens to me ALL THE TIME. I regularly get schooled by Richard Smith, who closes about half my clang bugs as "by design". Doesn't stop me. Better to make an erroneous report than to sit on it. I seem to be unable to change your opinion, so I'll stop now. <shrug> But it should be telling that even a representative of a compiler vector (Stephan) is begging you to file the bug. -- Eric Niebler Boost.org