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Re: Obsoleting c4x last minute for 4.0
- From: Janis Johnson <janis187 at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: Björn Haase <bjoern dot m dot haase at web dot de>
- Cc: joseph at codesourcery dot com, ericw at evcohs dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 16:06:57 -0700
- Subject: Re: Obsoleting c4x last minute for 4.0
- References: <200504072320.46784.bjoern.m.haase@web.de>
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:20:46PM +0200, Björn Haase wrote:
>
> The reason why I have stopped posting the test results is that we are
> currently having 481 failures for the AVR target and the existing real bugs
> are completely hidden behind the huge number of failures due to issues like
> "test needs trampolines but does not communicate it" or "test case assumes
> int to be 32 bit".
> IMHO regularly posting the same huge bug list is was not useful at all unless
> one could distinguish between *real* and *pseudo* failures.
>
> I had started to adapt the testsuite by adding functionality for communicating
> that a test case asssumes int to be 32 bit and by means to switch of all
> tests that require trampolines.
>
> Unfortunately, I did not get any response to the patch I had posted to
> gcc-patches a couple of months ago implementing additional effective target
> keywords :-(. A useful reworking of dozens of the affected test cases
> requires that new effective targets are present and that their names are
> agreed upon. Since I did not get any response on it, I did refrain to
> continue to work on testsuite adaptions so far.
I should have done that, I must have missed seeing your patch. I'll look
for it now in the archives.
Janis