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Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- To: bernds at redhat dot com, dewar at gnat dot com
- Subject: Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:36:10 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: aoliva at redhat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu,mark at codesourcery dot com
<<The test suite is far from covering all of gcc. I read Mark's message as
if he wanted to make sure that for any given program, if gcc version X
compiles it correctly, then gcc version X+1 will do so as well. (Not sure
if performance criteria apply as well). The testsuite won't help at all
with such a goal.
>>
This goal is obviously unreachable as stated, since we do not have access
to all possible programs! So one can only apporoximate with a test suite,
perhaps augmented by a set of standard applications (which really then in
a sense become part of the test suite).