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Re: RFA: upcoming testsuite disruptions
- From: Geoffrey Keating <geoffk at apple dot com>
- To: janis187 at us dot ibm dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 10 Jul 2007 15:47:24 -0700
- Subject: Re: RFA: upcoming testsuite disruptions
- References: <1184091856.5819.30.camel@janis-laptop>
Janis Johnson <janis187@us.ibm.com> writes:
> There's a testsuite patch that I submitted, but haven't yet
> checked in, that will break test summary comparisons from before
> and after that patch is applied:
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2007-06/msg00834.html
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2007-06/msg01076.html
>
> A patch from Manuel López-Ibáñez might result in failures for
> dg-error/dg-warning checks on targets that haven't been tested:
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2007-07/msg00962.html
>
> Both of these changes are worthwhile and should go in, but I'm
> worried about the disruptions they might cause. Should we
> coordinate the checkins of these patches with other major
> changes or freezes, or just do it?
For my regression tester scripts, I think they'll have little or no
effect, because the scripts only look at the first word of the test
name (which is typically the input filename, eg. execute/something.c).