RFA: upcoming testsuite disruptions

[Geoffrey Keating]

Janis Johnson <janis187@us.ibm.com> writes:

> There's a testsuite patch that I submitted, but haven't yet
> checked in, that will break test summary comparisons from before
> and after that patch is applied:
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2007-06/msg00834.html
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2007-06/msg01076.html
> 
> A patch from Manuel López-Ibáñez might result in failures for
> dg-error/dg-warning checks on targets that haven't been tested:
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2007-07/msg00962.html
> 
> Both of these changes are worthwhile and should go in, but I'm
> worried about the disruptions they might cause.  Should we
> coordinate the checkins of these patches with other major
> changes or freezes, or just do it?

For my regression tester scripts, I think they'll have little or no
effect, because the scripts only look at the first word of the test
name (which is typically the input filename, eg. execute/something.c).