C++ g++.dg/parse/parse3.C test
Matt Austern
austern@apple.com
Wed Oct 27 18:42:00 GMT 2004
On Oct 27, 2004, at 9:58 AM, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 05:24:33PM -0700, Matt Austern wrote:
>> 1. Accept the fact that a test case will start failing when it
>> previously succeeded, and decide that it's a good thing because it
>> increases the visibility of a known bug.
>
> This is not acceptable. Increasing the noise in the testsuite
> helps no one.
>
>> 2. XFAIL parse3.C.
>> 3. Remove parse3.C altogether.
>
> Either of these is fine, depending on whether or not you think
> that the test case is malformed or not.
I believe it's a perfectly valid test case; the only problem is that
it's running into a known compiler bug, which happens to be
masked by a different known bug.
--Matt
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