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Re: "ways of accomplishing ... the basic goal"
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>, Tom Lord <lord at emf dot net>
- Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 09:30:31 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: "ways of accomplishing ... the basic goal"
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0302070001060.19380-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk>
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> The problem after merges is mainly _unknown_ regressions - regressions not
> shown up in the testsuite. Many of these could perhaps be found by bulk
> builds of real world software - such as BSD packages/ports collections and
> GNU/Linux distributions - but doing such builds requires vastly more
> resources than a bootstrap/test of GCC.
Note that this way the new C++ parser never could have gone in: I am
quite sure it has broken a most significant amount of C++ packages
(be it in the FreeBSD ports collection or Debian packages)...
> And then you want some human filtering for the cases where the problem
> was in the code that broke, not in GCC.)
...and checking all these breakages (most of which would not have been
the fault of the new C++ parser) would have been hardly feasible.
Gerald
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