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Re: Will the consistent failures in EGCS be fixed soon?
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Will the consistent failures in EGCS be fixed soon?
- From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 12:53:45 +0100
- Cc: rearnsha at sun52 dot arm dot com, egcs at cygnus dot com
- Organization: Advanced RISC Machines Ltd.
- Reply-To: richard dot earnshaw at arm dot com
> The loop* things aren't likely to be addressed anytime soon. They
> are horribly obscure problems that nobody is likely to ever trigger
> unless they go look at the gcc source code and specifically write
> code to trigger a specific problem in the loop optimizer.
>
> There's also an alias bug in the testsuite that we aren't actively
> working on, but we do want to keep the test because we do want to
> fix the problem at some point.
>
So shouldn't these be marked as XFAILs? Then I won't waste time looking
into the failure in case it is a port problem.
Richard.