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Re: GCC-3.2.2 pre-release (second iteration)
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- To: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>, Greg Schafer <gschafer at zip dot com dot au>, Paolo Carlini <pcarlini at unitus dot it>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 08:54:57 -0800
- Subject: Re: GCC-3.2.2 pre-release (second iteration)
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0301311759180.10998-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk> <m3isw4geir.fsf@uniton.integrable-solutions.net>
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:19:08PM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> | --touch run. The only thing that could be considered "wrong" is having
> | Bison 1.875 installed when generating the prerelease, which necessitates
> | the "syntax error" testsuite changes, rather than an older version that's
> | been tested for longer with the 3.2 series (e.g., whatever version was
> | used for the 3.2.1 release).
>
> Firstly, there is no way I could have known that GCC's testsuite will be
> affected by recent version of Bison as there is no mention of which
> Bison should be used for GCC (pre)releases.
It's a good thing that you discovered this, actually.
Others won't know this either, so it will be a good thing to fix the tests
so that they won't be broken if they see "syntax error" instead of "parse
error".