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Re: Testing C++ changes
>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
Mark> So, I think we should require that you rebuild the Java library
Mark> when you change the C++ front end -- if you are using a platform
Mark> where GCJ builds at all.
Mark> I'm not sure about running the Java library tests; do the Java
Mark> people think that's necessary?
I don't think we've seen very many problems where the libjava C++ code
was miscompiled. There have been one or two (I'm remembering
interpreter stuff on the tree-ssa branch). We have seen more build
problems where a C++ front end change caused some part of libjava not
to build, though this really hasn't been a major problem of late,
either.
In sum I'm not too concerned about running the libjava test suite for
every C++ change. If we start seeing too many failures from not doing
this, we can always change the policy to adapt.
Tom