From: Mike Stump <mrs@apple.com>
To: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Ada policy
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 02:59:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B687D8A8-FAF6-11D8-8516-000393941EE6@apple.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10408302303.AA01021@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
On Aug 30, 2004, at 4:03 PM, Richard Kenner wrote:
> As Robert said, there will be lots of situations where the choice is
> either
> to submit the fix without a test case or not submit the fix. Which do
> you think is the best approach?
Primary languages and platforms should have them, they come in handy
from time to time and help make the compiler more maintainable and help
ensure a certain quality standard. Do no harm is really more
interesting to a customer than a random bug fix that they don't hit,
and by far, most code doesn't hit most bugs, therefore the greater good
is to not fix the bug, if you can't also do the testcase to ensure that
the customer won't hit the bug again...
Now, this is controversial, to be sure... and I'm not sure what should
be required of other frontends... I'll abstain from that.
On the other hand, if you never need to run the testsuite and never
break any bugs, then, doing the testsuite is a complete waste of time.
:-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-31 2:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-30 23:06 Richard Kenner
2004-08-31 2:59 ` Mike Stump [this message]
2004-08-31 3:10 ` Robert Dewar
2004-08-31 8:16 ` Per Bothner
2004-08-31 13:22 ` Robert Dewar
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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 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 21:41 Richard Kenner
2004-08-30 21:53 ` Joseph S. Myers
2004-08-30 22:28 ` Florian Weimer
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
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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