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Re: Results for haifa-enabled egcs-2.93.20 19990427 (gcc2 ss-9809 29 e xperimental) testsuite on mips-sgi-irix6.2/-mabi=64

Donn Terry wrote:
> I recently submitted a similar patch, which was redirected to
> "fix in DejaGnu" by RTH.  However, I was never able to find out
> how to actually get DejaGnu fixed.  (It turns out to be rather
> simple: add a .x file in the right place with the right contents.)

Unfortunately, the .x mechanism only works for some specific test
frameworks.  If I recall, it works for c-torture and f-torture but not
for any of the C++ fixtures or something annoying like that.

> I'm inclined to believe that we'd be better off using individual .x
> files because it:
> a) Documents what we're up to better.
> b) Is something we can control directly.

I would have used it if I had it.

In light of the silence from dejagnu team, I'm wondering if we would
have been better off to have added the .x plumbing to testsuite/lib/*.exp 
for reason "b" above.

RJL