Moving towards GCC 3.1

[Richard Henderson]

On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 11:36:07AM -0500, Richard Kenner wrote:
> There are numerous types of patches that fix bugs that fall into neither
> of the above two categories:
> 
> (1) Fixing existing testcase failures on a particular target.
> (2) Fixing build failures on a particular target.

Easily granted.

> (3) Fixing latent bugs

Not granted as a separate category.  If it's a latent bug, then
it must fall into 1 or 2, or have a new test case.

> (4) Fixing documentation or code quality issues

Define "code quality issues".  If you mean your "code cleanups that
must be reviewed because they invariably introduce new bugs" then I
do not agree.  If you mean "arbitrarily changing whitespace" then I
do not agree.

> (5) Fixing bugs in proprietary test cases

It's funny, because I work with proprietary test suites all the time,
and about 2/3 of the time I manage to generate an independant test
case from problems seen there.  More if you discount reload problems.


r~