Re: RFC: Change rules for adding/changing test cases

[Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 06:02:24PM +0000, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > As I mentioned in another mail, not all gcc testcases have
> > corresponding bug reports to refer to, and it's not always efficient
> > to rely on a database halfway across the Internet to give you clues
> > about how to fix bugs a testcase catches.
> 
> But equally, the reason why a test fails on one target may be completely 
> different from the reason why it fails on another; so I see minimal uses 
> for such comments.

The biggest use I see for such comments is for when you find
that some test case fails on some new target due to the 
non-portability of the test case itself.  If you have docs
for what it supposed to be tested, one can determine if it
makes sense to modify the test case or disable it for the new
target.


r~