Re: [boost] C++ announcements coming tomorrow

Subject: Re: [boost] C++ announcements coming tomorrow
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-11-03 19:50:49

On 03/11/12 19:47, Beman Dawes wrote:

> Have you filed a bug report recently? I filed one this summer and had
> a response the next day.

I have filed a couple, and voted for several existing ones. Always had 
something like "it's too late in the release cycle, WONTFIX" as an answer.

While I do stumble across VC++ bugs fairly often (that compiler 
seriously has way more bugs than other major C++ compiler, both language 
bugs and internal errors) I simply do not report them anymore.
What's the point if they're all going to be marked WONTFIX?

> Here some lists of bugs fixed:
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2012/06/15/10320846.aspx
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2012/08/10/10338661.aspx

Those are library bugs.
The problematic bugs to get fixed are those in the compiler itself.

Codegen bugs tend to get fixed eventually. Minor C++ bugs sometimes get 
fixed if you're lucky. Core C++ bugs? they're all closed, unless the bug 
is so major that the feature doesn't work at all.