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Re: RFC: Test optimizations for multiple architectures

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote:
>> If I am adding a testsuite for rawmemchr, why do I have to know what
>> mask permutations are interesting to run? It is irrelevant to the rawmemchr
>> testsuite.
>
> When you are adding an ifunc implementation of rawmemchr or anything else,
> you are responsible for knowing what mask permutations are relevant to
> making sure all the CPU-specific implementations you have added are covered
> by the test suite.
>

No, ifunc optimization is independent of glibc testsuite.  Any developers
can add a new test and they don't have to know ifunc optimization.

-- 
H.J.
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