From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 117738 invoked by alias); 25 Nov 2016 17:46:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 117707 invoked by uid 89); 25 Nov 2016 17:46:28 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=D*panix.com X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] extras: New test/build infrastructure To: libc-alpha@sourceware.org References: <9426ee75-3e45-6cde-b659-567398007a32@redhat.com> <1d0c74a4-965d-be13-6945-5af479eecbdc@panix.com> <87r35z8oyb.fsf@linux-m68k.org> From: Florian Weimer Message-ID: Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 17:46:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87r35z8oyb.fsf@linux-m68k.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2016-11/txt/msg00936.txt.bz2 On 11/25/2016 06:11 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote: > On Nov 25 2016, Zack Weinberg 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