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Re: Checkin Policy
- To: mark at markmitchell dot com
- Subject: Re: Checkin Policy
- From: Joern Rennecke <amylaar at cygnus dot co dot uk>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 18:10:33 +0000 (GMT)
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
> That said, I'd like to suggest, rather strongly this time, that we
> require people to run the regression tests before submitting patches,
> and certainly before comitting them. In this case, the problem could
> have been found simply by running the C++ tests, at least on
> x86-linux-gnu. (I have no idea whether this bug would have occurred
C++ has test regressions so often and so quickly chainging that it's
hard to use the C++ testsuite for regression testing of the gcc
optimizers. Note that I did do an x86 native bootstrap and an SH
cross and checked for C regressions.