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Re: Testsuite policy - test case now passes but bug remains
A question about testsuite policy/etiquette?
Recently I found a g77 bug, produced a simple testcase and submitted it to
the g77 testsuite as 20000601-1.f
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/2000-05/msg01005.html . The problem seems
restricted to mips-sgi-irix6.5 with -mabi=64. Now the testcase passes but
the original bug remains.
Should I:
* submit a new testcase (probably not)
Actually, that's the right answer. You submitted a test-case for a
bug. That bug was fixed -- but some other bug is still there. Submit
a second test-case for the second bug. Even if the causes are
related, it's good to have lots of test coverage for the parts of the
compiler that have historically been weak.
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