From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9986 invoked by alias); 13 May 2003 20:56:52 -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 4309 invoked from network); 13 May 2003 20:55:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO vortex.ices.utexas.edu) (128.83.68.102) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 May 2003 20:55:47 -0000 Received: from gandalf.ices.utexas.edu (IDENT:bkhEdvRgFzxxwhT7VQeTW+5dzeDUm7xy@gandalf.ices.utexas.edu [128.83.68.35]) by vortex.ices.utexas.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4DKtkQ2002336; Tue, 13 May 2003 15:55:46 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 20:56:00 -0000 From: Wolfgang Bangerth To: Volker Reichelt , Subject: Re: Testcases in Bugzilla Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg01360.txt.bz2 > 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wolfgang Bangerth email: bangerth@ices.utexas.edu www: http://www.ices.utexas.edu/~bangerth/