Re: test for excess errors

[Geoffrey Keating <geoffk at apple dot com>]

howarth@bromo.msbb.uc.edu (Jack Howarth) writes:

>    Is it the expected behavior for dejagnu to always report warnings
> as errors in the "test for excess errors" check? Is this a design
> decision or just how dejagnu currently works? I ask because the
> current output of "test for excess errors" when a FAIL occurs can
> be inaccurate. With -m64 on Darwin we currently get a significant number 
> of false positives in the fortran testsuite due to linker warnings being
> mistaken for errors. Thanks in advance for any clarifications.

Yes, it's a design decision.  You wouldn't want

cc1plus: segmentation fault

to be ignored, even if the compiler apparently successfully built the
testcase.