Re: Annoucing regressions and bootstrap fail? (was: Bootstrap broken on sparc-linux trunk between 145310:145425 because of new genattrtab.c va_arg (p, HOST_WIDE_INT) warning)

[Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>]

On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
>>> I'm thinking of changing my auto tester to report a broken bootstrap
>>> (the first time a bootstrap fails), is there a normalized way to
>> report such failures to gcc-testresults@ or gcc@?
>> I report it to gcc-regression@.
> It's documented by http://gcc.gnu.org/lists.html as "read-only":
> 
> gcc-regression is a read-only moderate volume list where regression
> results for the GCC compilers are posted.
> 
> So I thought one couldn't post to it.

Indeed, that looks like a mistake in the documentation of this list.

> If there's consensus that's the right place to send automatic regression 
> and bootstrap fail reports I'll do that then.

So far HJ and Geoff seem to be the main (if not sole) contributors to
that least, but that sounds reasonable.

For now I have applied the patch below to our web site; if there are
further improvements you can think of -- don't be shy! :-)

Gerald

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