Re: [PATCH] Turn some compile-time tests into run-time tests

[Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>]

On 04/28/2016 08:03 AM, Patrick Palka wrote:

> > The rest seem OK to me.  Note that I'm not convinced all these tests were
> > designed to be execution tests, even though they use __builtin_abort and
> > friends.  Though it's a good marker of something that can/should be looked
> > at.
>
> True..  What made me look into this in the first place is that I
> caught myself making a similar mistake, i.e. marking an execution test
> case as dg-do compile instead of dg-do run out of habit.
It's an easy mistake to make and, it's pretty low in terms of real world 
impact :-)


 But I
> suppose it's worth looking at the context of each of these tests to
> see if they were not actually intended to be execution tests.  I'll
> double check this and report back; in the meantime I also found some
> more tests that ought to be looked at.
I think for the set you already identified go ahead and make the 
approved changes.  We don't really lose anything by doing so.  Going 
forward we just have to continue to watch for this kind of thing 
slipping through the cracks and updating tests as mistakes are identified.

jeff