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From: Mike Stump <mikestump@comcast.net>
To: David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com>
Cc: Bill Schmidt <wschmidt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	GCC Patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>,
	Ulrich Weigand <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, rs6000] Fix PR65914
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 09:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <79D7ED92-36E3-46FB-9E1B-F4A1DDCE9B72@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGWvny=wkhk=sQHW5phrKw=6M9ZgwBcoix8qBYJ_5-QUWvFJRg@mail.gmail.com>

On Jun 19, 2015, at 5:36 PM, David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe you should ask Richi or Jakub about the testcase because you are
> placing it in a non-target-specific location.  It should succeed on
> all targets, but it may expose latent bugs on other targets.

A latent bug is one that is broken, but appears to work, and then a change in the compiler is made to expose the bug that was always there but didn’t show a failure.  It only applies to the compiler proper.

In this case, since the change is to add a test case, the test case can only show bugs that aren’t latent (or failures in the test case).

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-20 20:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-19 23:32 Bill Schmidt
2015-06-20  6:09 ` David Edelsohn
2015-06-21  9:48   ` Mike Stump [this message]
2015-06-21 13:57     ` Bill Schmidt
2015-06-22  3:00   ` Bill Schmidt
2015-06-22  6:57     ` Jakub Jelinek

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