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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Ada policy
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:28:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sma4wagr.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0408302125320.14497@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> (Joseph S. Myers's message of "Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:30:40 +0000 (UTC)")

* Joseph S. Myers:

> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Richard Kenner wrote:
>
>> There are two problems here.  First, there is no testsuite harness to
>> add the available test cases (as you say) and second that nearly all
>> of the test cases are proprietary code.
>> 
>> If somebody volunteers to do the former, that problem will go away.
>> But the second problem is more serious, especially if you enlarge
>> the set of changes that need test cases to front-end changes.
>
> *Some* tests are proprietary code.  But there are all the Ada testcases 
> you've sent to the lists over the years (apart from those derived from 
> ACATS), which are public even though they may be synthetic tests to cover 
> problems originally shown in proprietary code, and tests that were 
> submitted to GCC Bugzilla, and tests written by the authors of front-end 
> features (rather than based on proprietary code showing a bug) when they 
> add such features.

Debian's gnat package also contains a small but growing test suite.

By the way , are copyright assignments for test cases required?  Or
could we just copy testcases from everywhere, provided that they come
with proper licensing conditions and there's no apparent show-stopper?

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-30 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-30 21:41 Richard Kenner
2004-08-30 21:53 ` Joseph S. Myers
2004-08-30 22:28   ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2004-08-30 22:30     ` Joseph S. Myers
2004-08-30 23:01       ` Florian Weimer
2004-08-31 18:45         ` Laurent GUERBY
2004-08-30 22:43     ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-30 23:01       ` Florian Weimer
2004-08-31  0:11         ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-31  0:14           ` Florian Weimer
2004-08-30 22:34   ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-30 22:31 ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-30 22:48   ` Joseph S. Myers
2004-08-30 22:52     ` Mike Stump
2004-08-30 23:00       ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-30 22:55     ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-30 22:52 ` Mike Stump
2004-08-30 22:56   ` Robert Dewar
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-11 14:29 Ada Policy Richard Kenner
2004-09-11 10:43 Nathanael Nerode
2004-09-01 20:48 Ada policy Richard Kenner
2004-09-01 18:19 Robert Dewar
2004-09-01 18:51 ` Joe Buck
2004-09-01 20:21   ` Robert Dewar
2004-09-01 20:44     ` Joe Buck
2004-09-01 20:52       ` Robert Dewar
2004-09-01 20:53       ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-31 12:53 Richard Kenner
2004-08-31  3:34 Richard Kenner
2004-08-31  3:31 Richard Kenner
2004-08-31  4:07 ` Zack Weinberg
2004-08-31 22:06   ` Kai Henningsen
2004-08-31 22:19     ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-31 23:15       ` Florian Weimer
2004-09-01  1:23         ` Robert Dewar
2004-09-01 12:36           ` Florian Weimer
2004-09-01 12:51             ` Robert Dewar
2004-09-02 13:42               ` Florian Weimer
2004-09-03  7:54                 ` Robert Dewar
2004-09-09 21:00                   ` Florian Weimer
2004-09-09 21:15                     ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-31  3:22 Richard Kenner
2004-08-31  3:29 ` Zack Weinberg
2004-08-31  4:05   ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-31  4:05     ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-31  4:38       ` Zack Weinberg
2004-08-31  5:01   ` Matt Austern
2004-08-31 13:08     ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-31  1:25 Richard Kenner
2004-08-31  1:57 ` Zack Weinberg
2004-08-30 23:06 Richard Kenner
2004-08-31  2:59 ` Mike Stump
2004-08-31  3:10   ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-31  8:16 ` Per Bothner
2004-08-31 13:22   ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-30 22:18 Richard Kenner
2004-08-30 22:38 ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-30 22:01 Richard Kenner
2004-08-30 22:02 ` Laurent GUERBY
2004-08-30 10:44 GCC 3.5 Status (2004-08-29) Richard Kenner
2004-08-30 11:27 ` Laurent GUERBY
2004-08-30 13:05   ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-08-30 18:28     ` Laurent GUERBY
2004-08-30 20:14       ` Florian Weimer
2004-08-30 20:34         ` Ada policy (was: GCC 3.5 Status (2004-08-29)) Laurent GUERBY
2004-08-30 20:53           ` Ada policy Zack Weinberg
2004-08-30 20:55             ` Richard Guenther
2004-08-30 21:04             ` Richard Henderson
2004-08-30 21:24               ` Diego Novillo
2004-08-30 22:25               ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-31  1:13                 ` Zack Weinberg
2004-08-31  2:37                   ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-31  2:54                     ` Zack Weinberg
2004-08-31  3:00                       ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-31  3:28                         ` Zack Weinberg
2004-08-31  3:41                           ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-31  4:22                             ` Zack Weinberg
2004-08-31 12:55                               ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-31 15:02                                 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-08-31 15:36                                   ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-31 13:06                               ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-31 15:10                                 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-08-31 18:10                                   ` Laurent GUERBY
2004-08-31 18:30                                     ` Zack Weinberg
2004-08-31 18:55                                       ` Robert Dewar
2004-09-01 17:12                                         ` Kai Henningsen
2004-09-01 17:32                                           ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-31 18:59                                       ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-31 20:05                                         ` Scott Robert Ladd
2004-08-31 20:26                                           ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-31 20:53                                             ` Scott Robert Ladd
2004-08-31 20:56                                               ` Joseph S. Myers
2004-08-31 21:11                                             ` Florian Weimer
2004-08-31 21:50                                               ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-31 19:02                                       ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-31 19:28                                       ` Laurent GUERBY
2004-08-31 19:36                                         ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-31 18:42                                     ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-31 13:10                               ` Florian Weimer
2004-08-31 13:47                                 ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-30 21:05             ` Joseph S. Myers
2004-08-31 22:02             ` Geoffrey Keating
2004-08-31 22:11               ` Florian Weimer
2004-08-31 22:14               ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-31  0:13           ` Florian Weimer

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