> I really disagree with this. I work on compilers, so I feel for the people who work on GCC, but, I think it is totally unreasonable to expect the average GCC

> I really disagree with this. I work on compilers, so I feel for the people who work on GCC, but, I think it is totally unreasonable to expect the average GCC user who might have encountered this bug to be capable of fixing this themselves. I totally agree. GCC is reputed to be a complex beast, and few people have the spare time to get to the point where they can make the fix. To clarify my original point: The bug apparently wasn't bad enough to cause anyone like yourself to either (a) fix it, or (b) pay someone else to fix it. So I'm at peace with this at a kind of meta/process level.