On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 11:57 -0500, John S. Fine wrote: > Steve Teale wrote: > > Congratulations on a helpful answer. > Thanks for the compliment. Despite my knowing much less about GCC than > the experts who usually answer here, I think I sometimes have a better > insight into what is confusing the OP. Then I try to provide a helpful > answer. I think I did that this time. > > > Yours was the first one that did > > not display the almost conventional GCC guru arrogance. > But I have to disagree with you there. The GCC gurus typically > answering in this mailing list, including in this thread, do a great > job. I'm very impressed with the accuracy and helpfulness of answers in > this mailing list. I usually learn something. > > I didn't initially answer your post, because I didn't want to dilute the > discussion about precision with a lot of meta discussion about GCC > gurus. But now that it is already diluted by other replies, I didn't > want to leave the impression that I agree with you about that > "arrogance" of the GCC gurus. OK, so I overstated it, but the remark got some attention, and I do believe there is substance behind it. It's probably just a cultural thing. Thanks anyway Steve.
