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Re: branch bootstrap breakage in new DECL_RTL
- To: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu
- Subject: Re: branch bootstrap breakage in new DECL_RTL
- From: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 23:47:34 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, mark at codesourcery dot com
> In my opinion, what all these varied incidents have shown is that it's
> simply *not* possible to do anything even close to the level of
> exhaustive testing that would verify that all configurations still
> work, or even that a small fraction of them do.
>
> We have to accept the fact that things are going to break from time to
> time and people will need to spend time tracking down the reasons and
> fixing them.
True, but to the extent that a machine can do things it frees up
humans to do more productive work. A machine also doesn't get bored
or impatient doing rote meticulous tasks & testing that developers
often neglect.
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