From: dewar@gnat.com
To: jsm28@cam.ac.uk, kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: ACATS legal status cleared by FSF
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 17:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011207012231.EA5C8F28C6@nile.gnat.com> (raw)
<Well, the ACATS tests do not check code quality, but it's correct that the B
tests verify that each condition that must produce an error message do so.
And I agree that this is worthwhile test to run.
>>
The important thing to understand is that I would say only one percent of
changes to B test output are actual errors. The remaining 99% are a result
of minor changes in error message wording, formatting, or production.
I agree with Geert that for now it is a bad idea to include the B tests.
<<It is certainly valuable to have the B tests *around* for those cases when
having a run might be useful, but requiring them as a condition for checkins
doesn't make any sense at all for changes other than to the Ada front end
(since these tests mostly don't even get out of the front end since *all* of
them have errors) and is of only marginal value for changes to the Ada front
end.
>>
I would say marginal here = not worth while
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2001-12-06 17:38 dewar [this message]
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2001-12-09 19:03 dewar
2001-12-09 15:06 dewar
2001-12-09 15:55 ` Joseph S. Myers
2001-12-09 14:00 dewar
2001-12-07 19:12 dewar
2001-12-09 13:02 ` Zack Weinberg
2001-12-09 14:52 ` guerby
2001-12-09 19:47 ` Geert Bosch
2001-12-07 18:57 dewar
2001-12-07 18:50 mike stump
2001-12-07 17:59 dewar
2001-12-07 3:18 Richard Kenner
2001-12-06 19:09 dewar
2001-12-06 15:40 Richard Kenner
2001-12-06 15:01 Richard Kenner
2001-12-05 23:36 dewar
2001-12-05 15:28 Richard Kenner
2001-12-05 15:41 ` guerby
2001-12-05 15:13 guerby
2001-12-05 16:21 ` Joseph S. Myers
2001-12-05 18:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
2001-12-06 3:36 ` Geoff Keating
2001-12-06 9:34 ` Geert Bosch
2001-12-06 11:48 ` Zack Weinberg
2001-12-06 14:24 ` Geert Bosch
2001-12-06 14:32 ` Joseph S. Myers
2001-12-06 15:10 ` Zack Weinberg
2001-12-06 15:41 ` Geert Bosch
2001-12-06 18:22 ` Zack Weinberg
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