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Re: Will the consistent failures in EGCS be fixed soon?
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Will the consistent failures in EGCS be fixed soon?
- From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 16:52:36 +0100
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Cc: rearnsha at sun52 dot arm dot com
- Organization: Advanced RISC Machines Ltd.
- Reply-To: richard dot earnshaw at arm dot com
> >
> > So shouldn't these be marked as XFAILs? Then I won't waste time looking
> > into the failure in case it is a port problem.
> It would be nice, but we don't have the capability to xfail a test
> based on certain optimization levels or whatever multilib is in
> effect.
>
> It's not at all uncommon for those tests to only fail for one or
> two particular optimization levels.
>
Ok, I'll buy that; so how about another document describing known
failures, and the part of the compiler responsible -- this might help to
save hours of wasted work trying to track down the cause of problems that
have already been investigated but not yet fixed.
Richard