[Bug testsuite/25241] DejaGNU does not distinguish between errors and warnings

[manu at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Comment #6 from manu at gcc dot gnu dot org  2007-01-30 21:10 -------
(In reply to comment #5)
> Subject: Re:  DejaGNU does not distinguish between errors
>  and warnings
> 
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, manu at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote:
> 
> > I have the following patch. Framework tests work. However, this patch will make
> > a lot of tests to fail because:
> > 
> > * Many tests are using the wrong dg-warning or dg-error directive.
> > * Many tests add an explicit "warning:" or "error:" to workaround this bug.
> > * Many tests match several warning/error messages with a single
> > dg-warning/dg-error directive.
> > 
> > So what we want to do? Fix the testcases or do nothing?
> 
> Fix the testcases.
> 
> (a) Fix tests using the wrong one of dg-warning or dg-error, and tests 
> matching multiple diagnostics with a single directive, bit by bit.  Such 
> fixes should not depend on this patch.
> 
> (b) Apply this patch and remove the "warning:" and "error:" workarounds.
> 

There are around 6914 tests failing. And I am not even sure if the above patch
is correct. Perhaps there is something wrong on it that is causing excessive
failures. :-( 


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