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Re: Your recent change
- To: mrs at windriver dot com
- Subject: Re: Your recent change
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 12:55:34 -0800
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC
- References: <200003272038.MAA16305@kankakee.wrs.com>
>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Stump <mrs@windriver.com> writes:
Mike> For example, in the C testsuite I think it is hard to say
Mike> this case at -O3 fail on this list of hosts, but at -O2 they
Mike> work.... (as I recall). So the choice then becomes, do you
Mike> want unexpectedness on the pass over unexpectedness on the
Mike> fail, or do you want to improve the testsuite driver? The
Mike> g++ testsuite doesn't suffer from this problem as I recall.
Yes, there are problems with the testsuite driver. (Some of us are
hoping that the SoftwareCarpentry project will eventually provide a
better free software regression testing tool.)
We will either fix the driver, or err on the side of unexpected
passes. Unexpected failure will then be a red flag, as it should be.
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Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
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