a quick few questions

[Geert Bosch]

On Jun 23, 2004, at 23:17, Mike Stump wrote:

> I'd love to hear from people that lived in this type of world (and our 
> style of world) and hear which one is better.  Offhand, it might be 
> interesting to try.

We do it internally for Ada. You have to submit your test to an 
automated
tester that rebuilds the compiler, library and tools and runs about
10,000 regression tests. This takes slightly over an hour on the fastest
systems and most of a day on others.

Although it works very well to prevent target-independent failures,
it still won't address the issue that all tests may pass on one platform
and then other systems may be badly affected by the patch. This is less
of an issue for testing front ends than for back ends. That's why I'm 
not
sure such a requirement would help a lot for GCC.

   -Geert