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Re: g77 bugs in current snapshots
- To: d dot love at dl dot ac dot uk, egcs at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: g77 bugs in current snapshots
- From: mrs at wrs dot com (Mike Stump)
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:08:47 -0800
> From: Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
> Date: 13 Nov 1998 19:57:05 +0000
> Could someone say whether as policy regression tests should be added
> for such problems occurring in times of development instability?
100% yes. The reason is that if it broken because someone was playing
with the code, then they are like to play with it in the future as
well and break it again, and testing is meant to find those breakages
before product ships.
Now, the only exclusion to that rule, is if a testcase in the
testsuite did in fact find it first, then no additional testcase
usually needs be entered because one already exists.
In this case, it sounds like one should be added.