Re: [PATCH, Fortran] gfortran.texi: Update "Project Status" section.

[Brooks Moses <bmoses at stanford dot edu>]

Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:32:16PM -0700, Brooks Moses wrote:
> > This is the same text that I posted in a "draft" version last week, 
> > taking into account Jerry's comments with regards to the LAPACK 
> > testsuite -- it now says "produces acceptable results on the LAPACK Test 
> > Suite".  (I think it would be useful to explain this a bit more on the 
> > Wiki page about the results, and in particular explain why it is that 
> > the results report "1 failure" and it's still "acceptable".  I don't 
> > understand the details well enough to write that, though.)
>
> You can point people at
>
> http://www.netlib.org/lapack/faq.html#1.23

There's still a little bit of a gap in the explanation between what's 
explained on the FAW page, and three of the six error lines reported on 
the Wiki (http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranResults), namely:

> csep.out: CST drivers:      1 out of  11664 tests failed to pass the threshold
> ssep.out: SST:    1 out of  4662 tests failed to pass the threshold
> ssep.out: SST drivers:      1 out of  14256 tests failed to pass the threshold

Are these what the FAQ answer refers to as "minor testing failures"?

...Though I just realized that the "very near the acceptance critera 
threshold" phrase in the Wiki description is probably referring to that, 
rather than to the "1 failure is almost 0 failures" that I thought it 
meant on first reading, in which case the information is there, I just 
didn't see it.

- Brooks