From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@ices.utexas.edu>
To: Volker Reichelt <reichelt@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>, <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Testcases in Bugzilla
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 20:56:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305131545510.23882-100000@gandalf.ices.utexas.edu> (raw)
> we still haven't reached a conclusion about the testcases in Bugzilla.
To be quite honest, I think what you suggest won't work. What we put into
the bug database is just too diverse:
- we have bug reports where just the text of an error message became
worse than before
- we have bug reports where we get the compiler into an endless loop
- we have reports where compilation takes quadratic instead of linear
time in the input
- reports with two or more testcases that should do the same but don't
- some other really weird stuff happening.
I can't imagine a method to _automatically_ extract these testcases and do
something reasonable. If there is one, it would increase the entry level
for people working in GNATS. We're happy that we recently got quite a
number of people working on GNATS; that might or might not be due to the
relatively low barrier (you don't have to know anything about gcc's
internals) and I wouldn't be happy to increase that by adding more
procedures one has to follow.
I should say that this shouldn't stop you from coming up with a simple
solution. I think you do a very good job with your hand-extracted
testsuire. But whatever we do here, it should be simple. If it's not, it
might not be worth the trouble: if a bug is fixed and remains so for a
couple of months -- is that a problem?
W.
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2003-05-13 20:56 Wolfgang Bangerth [this message]
2003-05-13 21:25 ` Daniel Berlin
2003-05-13 21:26 ` Wolfgang Bangerth
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2003-05-13 11:50 Volker Reichelt
2003-05-13 18:33 ` Janis Johnson
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