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Re: [patch] Resubmission in an attempt to get someones attention
- From: Rainer Orth <ro at TechFak dot Uni-Bielefeld dot DE>
- To: Steve Ellcey <sje at cup dot hp dot com>
- Cc: janis187 at us dot ibm dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 06 Dec 2001 23:10:45 +0100
- Subject: Re: [patch] Resubmission in an attempt to get someones attention
- References: <200112062116.NAA20686@hpsje.cup.hp.com>
Steve Ellcey <sje@cup.hp.com> writes:
> I suppose I could write a simple structure passing / returning test that
> at least makes sure GCC still works in general and that nothing broke,
> but it wouldn't be testing that this change had the intended affect. Do
> you think that would be useful?
Certainly :-) When working on GCC not implementing the IRIX 6 N32/N64 ABI
structure passing conventions, I found this quite helpful. I've even
submitted a rough first cut at such an ABI testsuite framework:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-06/msg00258.html
but this didn't really get reviewed and I didn't have time to work on this
lately.
Rainer
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