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I feel that pain. I recently posted question on SO about the best way to work around what is apparently a bug in Clang, providing a code listing, link to the (
by jjgreen 4y ago
I feel that pain. I recently posted question on SO about the best way to work around what is apparently a bug in Clang, providing a code listing, link to the (open-source) full listing, GDB traces ... 7-8 people asked that I provide a "minimal example", presumably so they could paste it into some online debugger. As I was preparing that, and within 24h of the original post, it was closed.
Of course I deleted it. I'll take the issue up with the Clang people directly at some point.
- metabagel 4y agoYeah, typically there is always a better place to ask a question than SO. IRC, Discord, email list, etc. - wherever the experts and enthusiasts hang out who work all the time on whatever it is you are trying to wrap your brain around.
- __MatrixMan__ 4y ago...but then, once I get my answer on discord, I like to ask and answer your question on SO so that it's searchable. Somehow that lone upvote after five years of silence feels much more meaningful than the popular answers do. Like I'm glad if I can save 100 people 5 minutes, but even better is to save one person a week.
- Izkata 4y ago> As I was preparing that, and within 24h of the original post, it was closed. > Of course I deleted it. It was closed to prevent guesses from being posted as answers while you worked on the minimal example, if you'd just edited it in the question would've been put into the reopen queue.
- jjgreen 4y agoMaybe, maybe not. I'm not spending my time working on a closed question.