Re: More Objective C @"string" bugs...

[Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>]

Joseph S. Myers wrote:-

> 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?

Well, the Objective C testsuite went from 2 regressions last summer, to 3,
to 5, to all-but-a-couple, and no-one seemed to care.  I wondered why
the committers of whatever patches caused it didn't notice.

I hope a lot of these problems can be avoided by more clearly defining the
interface between different phases of the compiler.  This appears to be
the direction most people want to go in, and is slowly happening, but
progress is (naturally) slow.

Neil.