Re: [Iverilog-devel] Two people working on pr1879226

[Larry D. <ldo...@re...>]

Steve and Cary -

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 12:10:00PM -0800, Stephen Williams wrote:
> Are you working on pr1879226?

I don't have anything left to add, until and unless I get comments
on accuracy of my analysis or the efficacy of my patch.

> It looks like Cary took ownership by
> setting the "Assigned to:" field, as I started doing as well. But
> it appears that Larry just submitted a potential patch for exactly
> this PR.

Hey, competition is good!  ;-)

Seriously, I did check repeatedly on mailing lists and the bug/patch
trackers to make sure that I wasn't wasting my time.  I also figured
that the time I spent looking for the bug was also time learning more
about Icarus' internals, and would therefore not be truly wasted even
if someone else found and fixed the bug first.  Symmetry arguments
tell me that there's nothing wrong with my fixing a bug that someone
else is also investigating.

> It may be time to consider formalizing a method for claiming bug
> reports and feature requests, as progress on these bugs and features
> is really heating up. It seems to me that the "Assigned To:"
> field in the trackers is perfect for this.

It is, but that shouldn't keep others from jumping in if they have
something helpful to add.

In this case, the construct that Uwe found is very close to what
I use routinely, so I really really wanted this bug fixed before
it decided to bite me, too.

   -  Larry