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Re: Testing GCC & OSDL (Was: RFC: Generated structure layout testsfor gcc.dg/compat/struct-layout-1 (take 2))
- From: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>
- To: Laurent GUERBY <laurent at guerby dot net>
- Cc: mark at codesourcery dot com, jakub at redhat dot com, janis187 at us dot ibm dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, vmakarov at redhat dot com, torvalds at osdl dot org
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:25:56 -0500
- Subject: Re: Testing GCC & OSDL (Was: RFC: Generated structure layout testsfor gcc.dg/compat/struct-layout-1 (take 2))
- Organization: Red Hat / Chicago
- References: <20040715172523.GN21264@devserv.devel.redhat.com><20040721151540.GW21264@devserv.devel.redhat.com><20040721164133.GA4227@us.ibm.com><20040721171430.GX21264@devserv.devel.redhat.com><40FEABA5.4070500@codesourcery.com><1090434729.10860.131.camel@pc.site>
I think the testing you are proposing wouldn't hurt, regardless of the
specific patch in question that started this discussion. Indeed, having
a patch server that can validate proposed patches has been a long
discussed feature.
Besides machine resources, this project also needs an administrator, and
some initial setup. Are you suggesting OSDL help with all of these
needs, or just machine resources?
>It would also be fair to all GCC developpers, even those who
>cannot afford more than a 486SX with 2MB of RAM or
>who don't work on a Free Software company with appropriate
>ressources.
Keeping the development process possible, even for people without
hardware resources, is a worthy goal for the gcc project: I would be
surprised if anybody disagreed with this.
-benjamin