Re: Ada policy

[Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>]

Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> 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. 

Actually *most* tests for fixed bugs 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

Yes, there are a few cases like this.


, 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.

Right, these feature tests are indeed distributable

> (If testcases suitable for automated testing aren't 
> routinely written when new front end features are added,

Actually they are typically written *before* the features
are added.