Re: crash in 1.0.3a fortran compilation

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <199807220746.DAA21137@melange.gnu.org>you write:
  > That's a good point.  OT1H, there's apparently plenty of freely
  > redistributable Fortran code out there that could be snarfed into
  > the g77.f-torture suite.  OTOH, that would make the `make check'
  > phase of typical builds take *much* longer, and the distributions
  > larger as well, and it's not clear (to me anyway) why that'd be okay
  > while, at the same time, we don't snarf major C packages (like GNU
  > Emacs, lynx, and so on ;-) into gcc.c-torture.
Right.  Part of the idea behind c-torture is for tests to be small and
easily understandable.  It keeps the testsuite from running "forever"
and when the time comes to actually analyze a bug, it's a whole lot
easier to work from a 10 line hunk of code than wander through the
megabytes of code for emacs, the linux kernel, etc :-)

It would be nice if f-torture had the same kind of goals -- especially
since some of us C folks have to look at them once in a while to fix
codegen bugs :-) :-)  I'm more likely to understand a dozen or two lines
of fortran code than I am something bigger.

jeff