At 6:30 AM -0700 1999/04/25, Jean Cyr wrote:
>...
>Do you realize what you are asking? You want us to review each line of
>code to see if it might be affected by this bug! Then you want us to
>replace each incident with something that will generate the division,
>instead of letting the compiler pre-calculate the constant and simply
>load it.
>
>We would not do such a thing. Instead we have reverted to a previous
>compiler. I have been critical of Metrowerks in the past and your
>response re-enforces my belief. It shows a lack of understanding
>of the development environment on the part of Metrowerks.
Jean, I find your leap of logic somewhat difficult to understand given the
circumstances of this event.
The bug was reported by Richard Wagner on April 12. Metrowerks reproduced and
acknowledged the bug the very next day and even suggested a work-around which will
continue to work even after the bug in the compiler is fixed. It is now a mere 8
working days later, the fix is under development, and you feel Metrowerks 'lacks
understanding of the development environment' ? Few people will agree.
>I will end my rant now, since this is not specifically a programming
>issue. I sure wish Palm/3Com could understand that to move the Palm
>to the next stage, they need to pay attention to such issues. This
>ain't your basement hacker's platform anymore.
Thank you for your feedback. I'd like to assure you once again that 3Com/Palm
Computing and Metrowerks do understand and take our developers (both professional and
basement hackers) and their issues very seriously.
Likewise, soapbox criticisms, flames, and other forms of public temper tantrums are
unprofessional and serve only to decrease the merit of the individual and his or her
issues. And that goes for EVERYONE.
Regards,
Jim Schram
3Com/Palm Computing
Partner Engineering
