changing testcases (don't.)

[Kaveh R. Ghazi]

 > From: Geoff Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>
 > 
 > I'd like to ask contributors _not_ to change existing testcases except
 > to remove bugs in the testcases.  It causes trouble like this:
 > 
 > > From: Jan Hubicka <hubicka@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
 > 
 > > The cast-qual mentioned in the email don't seems to be caused by me 
 > > (I believe) and it has passed (according to the logs) in my make check.
 > 
 > Now, the reason Jan is confused is that his version of
 > testsuite/gcc.dg/cast-qual-1.c does in fact pass.  The testcase
 > was changed, and now it doesn't pass.  Is this a real regression
 > caused by Jan's patch?  There's no way to know; I'd have to revert the
 > testcase change (or the patch) to find out.
 > 
 > The problem is even worse when it's a program trying to interpret the
 > testcase results.  I think it's not unreasonable to assume that if a
 > particular testcase used to pass, and now it fails, then that
 > represents a new bug in gcc.
 > 
 > Happily, I think this testcase change was in fact wrong anyway; so
 > I'll probably just revert it.  I'd like to avoid this happening in
 > future, though.
 > -- 
 > - Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>


This was my fault.  Sorry!

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