Re: Ada policy

["Joseph S. Myers" <jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk>]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Richard Kenner wrote:

> There are two problems here.  First, there is no testsuite harness to
> add the available test cases (as you say) and second that nearly all
> of the test cases are proprietary code.
> 
> If somebody volunteers to do the former, that problem will go away.
> But the second problem is more serious, especially if you enlarge
> the set of changes that need test cases to front-end changes.

*Some* tests are proprietary code.  But there are all the Ada testcases 
you've sent to the lists over the years (apart from those derived from 
ACATS), which are public even though they may be synthetic tests to cover 
problems originally shown in proprietary code, and tests that were 
submitted to GCC Bugzilla, and tests written by the authors of front-end 
features (rather than based on proprietary code showing a bug) when they 
add such features.  (If testcases suitable for automated testing aren't 
routinely written when new front end features are added, then starting 
writing such tests to accompany future features is simply part of 
following the usual GCC development practice followed for other front 
ends.)

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