ACATS legal status cleared by FSF

dewar@gnat.com dewar@gnat.com
Thu Dec 6 19:09:00 GMT 2001


<<My experience working on the C front end has been that tests for proper
diagnostics from ill-formed code are extremely useful.  Can you explain
why they're almost useless for the Ada front end?
>>

It's just the experience that I mentioned, that most of the work is
fiddling for perfectly acceptable correct changes in messages.

<<This is all fair.  How about a compromise position where you check the B
tests into the CVS tree but don't bother adding dejagnu harnesses for them.
They are then instantly available if they are needed.
>>

Certainly they are not secret. And we can certainly check them in. The
question is whether to set up the harness with the baselines or not.
(evaluating B test runs without the baselines is an overwhelming task).



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