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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] extras: New test/build infrastructure
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 17:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <abd8fac1-7f2f-d759-642a-6811bd32a958@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r35z8oyb.fsf@linux-m68k.org>

On 11/25/2016 06:11 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Nov 25 2016, Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> wrote:
>
>> Can I ask why the new directory is called "extras"?  That makes it sound
>> like a home for extra features that we want to provide but not in the
>> core C library.  Something more obviously internal-use and
>> build/test-related would be better, I think.
>
> Like test-support or testsuite.

It won't always be about testing.

For example, some time next year, I hope to contribute a tool which 
parses C test cases, extract warning/error markers, and use that to 
check fortify warnings.

Thanks,
Florian

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-25 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-25 15:59 Florian Weimer
2016-11-25 16:14 ` Zack Weinberg
2016-11-25 17:11   ` Andreas Schwab
2016-11-25 17:46     ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2016-11-25 17:45   ` Florian Weimer
2016-11-25 18:44     ` Zack Weinberg
2016-11-25 18:49       ` Florian Weimer
2016-11-25 16:16 ` Florian Weimer
2016-11-25 17:29 ` Joseph Myers
2016-11-25 17:48   ` Florian Weimer
2016-11-25 18:24     ` Joseph Myers
2016-11-25 19:26       ` Florian Weimer

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