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Re: More Objective C @"string" bugs...
- To: Nicola Pero <n dot pero at mi dot flashnet dot it>
- Subject: Re: More Objective C @"string" bugs...
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 02:17:16 +0000 (GMT)
- cc: <gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Nicola Pero wrote:
> As a newcomer to gcc development, the fact that an existing working
> frontend (correct code!) is broken silently and randomly by gcc core
> development commits seems to me a wicked combination of ugly program
> design and - particularly in the case of frontends which are kept in the
> gcc repository - very bad habits of some gcc hackers who don't take into
> account the existence and importance of front ends different from C/C++.
GCC developers follow the standard procedure of running the testsuite and
avoiding regressions - it's simply that the ObjC testsuite is very small
so problems are likely not to be shown up. Perhaps there are Objective C
testcases in the old archives of bug-gcc, egcs-bugs and gcc-bugs that
could be put into the testsuite, so much as to improve its coverage as to
test for regressions on old bugs?
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk