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Re: GCC 3.1 Release
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: mark at codesourcery dot com, tromey at redhat dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 16:18:16 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: GCC 3.1 Release
<<In fact what I'd really like to see is a requirement for such a
regression tester for every platform that is considered release
critical. (I'm sure the logistics of this are difficult.)
>>
I strongly support this. It is certainly what we do at ACT (we build all
versions every night, and immediately fix or backout any changes that break
any target).
Mark> The amount of breakage since GCC 3.0 continues to amaze me.
It does not surprise me so much. At this stage, it would somewhat surprise me
if we were NOT running into this kind of breakage in the absence of systematic
multi-platform regression testing.
I know that it would be near to impossible to keep GNAT highly stable without
this kind of regression testing.