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Re: Ada policy
- From: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>
- To: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 19:37:33 -0700
- Subject: Re: Ada policy
- References: <10408302303.AA01021@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
On Aug 30, 2004, at 4:03 PM, Richard Kenner wrote:
As Robert said, there will be lots of situations where the choice is
either
to submit the fix without a test case or not submit the fix. Which do
you think is the best approach?
Primary languages and platforms should have them, they come in handy
from time to time and help make the compiler more maintainable and help
ensure a certain quality standard. Do no harm is really more
interesting to a customer than a random bug fix that they don't hit,
and by far, most code doesn't hit most bugs, therefore the greater good
is to not fix the bug, if you can't also do the testcase to ensure that
the customer won't hit the bug again...
Now, this is controversial, to be sure... and I'm not sure what should
be required of other frontends... I'll abstain from that.
On the other hand, if you never need to run the testsuite and never
break any bugs, then, doing the testsuite is a complete waste of time.
:-)