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RE: [committed] Fix MIPS p5600 scheduler
- From: Matthew Fortune <Matthew dot Fortune at imgtec dot com>
- To: Mike Stump <mikestump at comcast dot net>
- Cc: Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford at googlemail dot com>, "gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Jaydeep Patil <Jaydeep dot Patil at imgtec dot com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 20:22:50 +0000
- Subject: RE: [committed] Fix MIPS p5600 scheduler
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> On Jul 17, 2014, at 11:47 PM, Matthew Fortune <Matthew.Fortune@imgtec.com>
> wrote:
> > Thanks for fixing this. I'm afraid I managed to get confused between
> > failures we had seen sporadically in our development work and thought
> > they were known regressions on trunk waiting to be fixed when actually
> > we were introducing them.
>
> I recommend contrib/compare_tests for checking for regressions. It tells
> you just what you need to know, and if they first line is unimportant,
> you're done reading. If the first three lines are interesting, then you
> have at least 1 regression left. By reducing the line count of what you
> have to look at, it making it exceedingly hard to ignore it and exceedingly
> hard to accidentally put in a regression.
Thanks Mike. The advice is appreciated.
Matthew