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Re: How to see labels in common block


 In message <38A9B600.C069E005@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>you write:
  > 
  > >   As far as improving the testsuite, we might consider simply downloading
  > > a million lines of code from netlib.  It isn't something that we can pack
  > > up and distribute, but in those million lines, every silly thing that you
  > > can do with fortran is done someplace.
  > 
  > No, I don't like that.  We should add testcases to the testsuite that
  > really point to problems.  Otherwise it'll get much to expensive to run
  > testsuites.  Furthermore - an observation I borrow from Mike Stump - a
  > testcase is pointing at a weak spot in the compiler.  We might get it
  > wrong again.
I agree with Toon.

Our testsuite is a regression testsuite -- meaning it tests for bugs that
have already been reported to make sure we don't mess them up again.  The
tests are meant to be small, which keeps the compile/run time reasonable
and makes the tests understandable, even to those not 100% familiar with
the test itself.

We have a separate process for doing larger scale testing as part of our
release process.  For example, we used lapack as part of our testing
program for the gcc-2.95 release.

jeff



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