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Re: Patch queue and reviewing (Was Re: Generator programs can only be built with optimization enabled?)

From: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>
To: Manuel López-Ibáñez <lopezibanez at gmail dot com>
Cc: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com>, Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>, Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at libertysurf dot fr>, Paolo Bonzini <paolo dot bonzini at lu dot unisi dot ch>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:52:59 -0700
Subject: Re: Patch queue and reviewing (Was Re: Generator programs can only be built with optimization enabled?)
References: <448C7B05.8030109@codesourcery.com> <448D9BE9.6020805@codesourcery.com> <448E652E.1080602@lu.unisi.ch> <200606131002.27752.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> <448F8170.2050402@dberlin.org> <96F5A03B-F997-4859-BD28-F71727B6313B@apple.com> <20060614185149.GF21013@synopsys.com> <A2CF6C09-888D-4F85-AA24-E88A8274D48B@apple.com> <6c33472e0606150234l41d9962bo2390baf2ec68b7a4@mail.gmail.com>

On Jun 15, 2006, at 2:34 AM, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:

Maintainers said that they are overwhelmed by the amount of work
required to review. Post-approval testing seems just a waste of time
to me.

It is, well, unless you want mainline to build and pass a regression suite. No amount of pre-testing can ensure that. Maybe you've never seen:

http://gcc.gnu.org/regtest/HEAD/log.txt.gz

see http://gcc.gnu.org/regtest/HEAD/ for context.

References:
- Patch queue and reviewing (Was Re: Generator programs can only be built with optimization enabled?)
  - From: Daniel Berlin
- Re: Patch queue and reviewing (Was Re: Generator programs can only be built with optimization enabled?)
  - From: Mike Stump
- Re: Patch queue and reviewing (Was Re: Generator programs can only be built with optimization enabled?)
  - From: Joe Buck
- Re: Patch queue and reviewing (Was Re: Generator programs can only be built with optimization enabled?)
  - From: Mike Stump
- Re: Patch queue and reviewing (Was Re: Generator programs can only be built with optimization enabled?)
  - From: Manuel LÃpez-IbÃÃez

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