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Re: ACATS legal status cleared by FSF
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- To: jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk, kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 20:22:31 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: ACATS legal status cleared by FSF
<Well, the ACATS tests do not check code quality, but it's correct that the B
tests verify that each condition that must produce an error message do so.
And I agree that this is worthwhile test to run.
>>
The important thing to understand is that I would say only one percent of
changes to B test output are actual errors. The remaining 99% are a result
of minor changes in error message wording, formatting, or production.
I agree with Geert that for now it is a bad idea to include the B tests.
<<It is certainly valuable to have the B tests *around* for those cases when
having a run might be useful, but requiring them as a condition for checkins
doesn't make any sense at all for changes other than to the Ada front end
(since these tests mostly don't even get out of the front end since *all* of
them have errors) and is of only marginal value for changes to the Ada front
end.
>>
I would say marginal here = not worth while