| ??? 04/19/08 20:50 Read: times |
#153721 - not always ... Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Michael Karas said:
My guess is that a fairly large percentage of the people who complain about "compiler bugs" or "unexpected behavior" have made no attempt to research the problem or actually read the manual. It seems that the standard method used by most people is to ask on-line or complain before making any investigatory attempt to research the problem.
I participate a lot in a Visual Basic forum and the above is borne out over and over again every day, despite many many available resources of documentation. I can see this also happens here and at other forums such as Keil's and SiLabs' forums. So even if you had the most incredible tools with the most squeaky clean and perfect documentation you are still going to see people failing to read and research before posting and asking questions. In the 8051 world I'll suggest that this phenomenon applies equally to people using assembly language or a high level language. Michael Karas I see numerous bug reports in the SDCC forum, but they're not all of the type to which you refer. Very often, the report of the discrepancy is accompanied by the chapter and verse with which the observed behavior is in conflict. I've seen the sort of thing to which you refer very often, but those bugs are usually the result of one version of documentation and another of the software being used. Yes, there are lots of bugs reported, and well over half are not bugs at all, but simply pilot error. However, in the SDCC forum, the bugs end up being resolved, first with workarounds and later with actual fixes! RE |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| SDCC XRAM Problem | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Sounds like ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I *think* I have that covered... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| it is NOT | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Assembly | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I'll try anything once | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| OK, here is a way | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| ANSI C | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| SDCC startup | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| unsigned char _sdcc_external_startup(void) | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| holy cow | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| The problem is obvious ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I'm not that bombastic, but agree in principle wit | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| When someone is familiar with it as you are ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| show me one from this year | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| You have taken my comment wrong. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| My Guess Is That... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
not always ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| obscure? | 01/01/70 00:00 |