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Re: [patch] Resubmission in an attempt to get someones attention
- From: Steve Ellcey <sje at cup dot hp dot com>
- To: janis187 at us dot ibm dot com
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 13:16:20 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: [patch] Resubmission in an attempt to get someones attention
I am not quite sure how to write a test for this. Tests that involve
just GCC will work before and after the changes because while the
parameter passing/returns was done "wrong" with respect to the ABI they
were done consistently within GCC. It is in the interaction between GCC
and HP C that the problem arises but I don't believe that GCC supports
that type of test involving GCC and the system compiler.
I suppose I could write a simple structure passing / returning test that
at least makes sure GCC still works in general and that nothing broke,
but it wouldn't be testing that this change had the intended affect. Do
you think that would be useful?
Steve Ellcey
sje@cup.hp.com
> If someone (Jim?) approves this I'll volunteer to commit the changes
> after running a bootstrap and test run on ia64-linux.
>
> This probably deserves at least one new test, even if it only affects
> ia64-hpux.
>
> Janis