PR 37159

[Dennis Wassel]

Hi people,

following Tobias' advice for something to get started, I've started to
dig my way into PR 37159; I think I understood the problem raised in
the PR and what (generally) needs to be done. Now I have a first set
of -general- questions on how things are done around here:

I've downloaded the current trunk and am currently building the C and
Fortran frontends by simple "make". I understand that I won't need to
bootstrap gcc, since any changes to gcc/fortran or libgfortran/ will
not affect the bootstrap or any other language than Fortran - is that
right?

Coming to testing:
Ok, I don't even have a patch yet, but what I think needs to be done is
1. Build gcc from trunk (currently running),
2. Do a full Fortran testrun (which precise make incantations do I
need for that?) and "remember" the result,
3. Produce and apply the patch :-)
4. Rebuild gcc - do I need to make clean anything, or will a regular
(minimal) build suffice?
5. Do another Fortran testrun to make sure not to introduce regressions.

I just recognised it might be clever to *first* create a testcase
before starting with 2. Anyways, did I get things right so far?

Cheers,
Dennis