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Re: Rename C files to .c in GCC source
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Jonny Grant <jg at jguk dot org>
- Cc: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gmail dot com>, "Kevin Ingwersen (Ingwie Phoenix)" <ingwie2000 at googlemail dot com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely dot gcc at gmail dot com>, DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>, GCC Mailing List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 23:24:19 +0000
- Subject: Re: Rename C files to .c in GCC source
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On Tue, 3 Feb 2015, Jonny Grant wrote:
> > There are around 11k files that have the .C ending to them; all in the
> > testsuite. I don't think it make sense to move them.
>
> How many minutes labor is this task?
It's desirable for test names to be stable so that results can be compared
over time, which means a presumption that renaming an existing testcase is
bad unless the name is really, really confusing (a pair testname-1.c and
testname_1.c might count as confusing, but not test.C unless there's
another very similar test in the same directory, in which case the "test"
part would need changing).
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Joseph S. Myers
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