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Re: Will the consistent failures in EGCS be fixed soon?
- To: Carlo Wood <carlo at runaway dot xs4all dot nl>
- Subject: Re: Will the consistent failures in EGCS be fixed soon?
- From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 16:15:59 +0100
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com (egcs at cygnus dot com)
- Cc: rearnsha at sun52 dot arm dot com
- Organization: Advanced RISC Machines Ltd.
- Reply-To: richard dot earnshaw at arm dot com
> | Ok, I'll buy that; so how about another document describing known
> | failures, and the part of the compiler responsible -- this might help to
> | save hours of wasted work trying to track down the cause of problems that
> | have already been investigated but not yet fixed.
> |
> | Richard
>
> This `database' could grow pretty large.
> I imagine that a sort of E-mail thread on each test case, kept
> on the website would be favourable above including it in the
> tar.gz.
>
Not necessarily. Broken tests get fixed, in which case the need to
document the cause of the ex-failure goes away. Working tests don't need
any documentation. Of course, the test may fail again at some later date,
but that will need investigation in its own right; I'd guess the chance
that the same reason would be the cause of a future failure (assuming the
problem was fixed properly in the first place) would be no more than 50/50.
Richard.