More Objective C @"string" bugs...

[Neil Booth]

Joseph S. Myers wrote:-

> GCC developers follow the standard procedure of running the testsuite and
> avoiding regressions - it's simply that the ObjC testsuite is very small
> so problems are likely not to be shown up.  Perhaps there are Objective C
> testcases in the old archives of bug-gcc, egcs-bugs and gcc-bugs that
> could be put into the testsuite, so much as to improve its coverage as to
> test for regressions on old bugs?

Incidentally, another problem is that the number of testsuite failures
is non-zero, and some of those not passing have not been passing for months.
On top of that, the "consistently failing" set of tests has been in flux,
with new failing tests being adding quite regularly, and old failing tests
being fixed.

I think we should mark everything that doesn't pass now XFAIL, so we have
zero regressions, and aim to stick to it.  It's just too easy for a single
new failure to creep into the noise and no-one notice it - it's happened
to me at least once.  It doesn't help that people keep adding new tests
that fail but not marking them XFAIL.  Even if they are high priority in
some way, I don't think letting them fail is a good idea, from the noise
point of view.

Neil.