Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GCC v. Arch address@hidden: Regressions on mainline]

[Andrew Suffield]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:55:30AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 12:13 +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 09:44:10PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 02:39 +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Lack of a useful hook.
> > > 
> > > Where would you put a new one, and/or what is not useful about the
> > > existing ones?
> > 
> > You're still looking at it the wrong way around :P
> > 
> > There's no useful program you can run that says "yes, merge this" or
> > "no, reject this".
> 
> Sure there is: "make check"

This is almost, but not quite, precisely what you don't want. It only
works if you have an essentially static test suite in advance. Large
projects (such as gcc) have a test suite that changes often, and
variable requirements on which tests must pass.

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