Re: [testsuite] XFAIL for dg-debug testsuite

[Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:59:36AM +0100, Eric Botcazou wrote:
> > We can fix this if we make sure that we have at least one other
> > instruction.  One way to do that is to modify the testcase so that p is
> > a global instead of a parameter.  We thus need a load instruction.  The
> > other optimizations all occur as before, the block is optimized into a
> > conditional move.  Except this time the testcase works because the load
> > is left in the body, and we get the debug info for the sparc.
> >
> > If this is undesirable for some reason, then the testsuite patch you
> > proposed is OK.
> 
> I think our policy is not to tweak testcases.  That said, if Richard wants to 
> make an exception (or let me replace them by debug-[78].c), I think this 
> would be more elegant than once again hacking the testsuite driver.

The solution sounds ok.  I myself don't care about replace vs modify.


r~