Re: GCC2 merging (was "native language support now available")

[smurf at noris dot de (Matthias Urlichs)]

  kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) writes:
> 
> say that such testing isn't very valuable.  The kind of testing that's the
> most important in producing high reliability software is *unit testing*,
> which means testing each function individually to make sure it meets its
> specifications under all conditions.  As far as I know, this is not done for
> either gcc2 or egcs.
> 
IMHO it's difficult if not impossible to verify gcc this way. Just look at
the bugs squashed during egcs-1.1 development. Many of them only surfaced
under very specific circumstances and the test programs frequently are
twenty lines of C, all important to trigger the bug.

Mind you, I don't have a better answer either...

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