From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2130 invoked by alias); 31 Jan 2003 21:02:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 2122 invoked from network); 31 Jan 2003 21:02:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO disaster.jaj.com) (66.93.21.106) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 31 Jan 2003 21:02:47 -0000 Received: (from phil@localhost) by disaster.jaj.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) id h0VL2id10450; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 16:02:44 -0500 Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 23:12:00 -0000 From: Phil Edwards To: "Joseph S. Myers" Cc: Benjamin Kosnik , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, mark@codesourcery.com Subject: Re: GCC 3.3, GCC 3.4 Message-ID: <20030131210244.GA10235@disaster.jaj.com> References: <20030130181313.7d3c5820.bkoz@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg01817.txt.bz2 On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:03:41AM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Benjamin Kosnik wrote: > > > I think the longer gcc, as a project, goes on without an autobuild > > continuous regression checker, the worse off things will get. It was > > nice of Red Hat to initially support this effort, but it is obvious that > > this time is past as the regression checker is long dead. Somebody else > > will have to step up with the bandwidth, time, and machine to do this. > > The one that Geoff was running at Red Hat is now running at Apple (Darwin > native only, rather than one native and two cross). I think there's also > a separate one running on athlon_mp-pc-linux-gnu (look for Autocrasher in > the gcc-regression archives). Yeah, but since "make compare" and "make gnucompare" still don't seem to be identical (on occasion), it generates false alarms (on occasion). > However, we do need a simple system for anyone (with a fast enough system) > to be able to set up the tester and run it, I'm putting the finishing touches on an email-based binary search server. One could send mail such as % mail -s 'regression hunt cc1plus 3.3 assemble -O2' foo@foo.foo < PRnnnn.cc and get back a message saying "It broke somewhere between the 12th and the 13th." Phil -- I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met. - Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002