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Re: [wwwdocs] Mention GIMPLE and RTL frontends in changes.html
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 08:09:56 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: [wwwdocs] Mention GIMPLE and RTL frontends in changes.html
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On Thu, 2 Feb 2017, David Malcolm wrote:
> This patch to the website moves the section about the selftest suite to
> the bottom of "Other significant improvements" section, and rewrites it
> to also cover the GIMPLE and RTL "frontends", and tries to couch these
> changes in terms of the benefit to the end-user (i.e. a more reliable
> compiler).
Index: htdocs/gcc-7/changes.html
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+ <p>GCC's already extensive self-test suite has gained some new
+ capabilities, to further improve the reliability of the compiler:</p>
Would "testsuite" be sufficient here?
(Per codingconventions.html we use "testsuite" as opposed to "test
suite", as I just checked.)
+ <li>GCC now has has an internal unit testing API and a suite of tests
+ for programmatic self-testing of implementation subsystems.</li>
Omit "implementation"?
Those are genuine questions (where I feel a little stronger about
the former than the latter), i.e., while I personally would make
those changes, I am not making this a requirement of my review.
The patch is okay, just consider the above, please.
Thanks,
Gerald