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Re: [RFC/testsuite] detect ICE in testsuite, include in FAIL message
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Janis Johnson <janis187 at us dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 14:07:27 -0700
- Subject: Re: [RFC/testsuite] detect ICE in testsuite, include in FAIL message
- References: <20060511000035.GA7826@us.ibm.com>
Janis Johnson wrote:
> In some cases there is a single FAIL message for an ICE; in others
> there are additional FAIL messages because I don't remove the ICE
> message from the compiler output, leading to "excess errors" failures.
> That doesn't seem like a big deal since presumably new ICEs will be
> fixed quickly. Similarly I assume it's not a problem that we can't
> XFAIL an ICE.
I agree that these limitations are OK, given that the goal is zero fails
in the testsuite anyhow. The only reasons for XFAILs are either
regressions we mean to fix or failures we can live with; an ICE should
always be in the first category.
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