RFA: Testsuite patches...

[Kevin Buettner]

On Aug 2,  9:55pm, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> I think GDB should be accepting tests (provided that they are
> rigiously examined) even when they add failures - just as long as
> the failures examine real bugs.  I think this also better reflects
> what really goes on.

I agree.

If we make "no new failures" the criteria for whether a test is added
to the testsuite or not, then it seems to me that we'll end up adding
very few new tests just because it's so difficult for any one person
to test on all affected targets.  (And it really doesn't work to
post a patch and expect everyone affected to try it.)

It makes sense to me to spread the workload by adding a test and then
expecting the various maintainers to make sure that the test passes
(or gets suitably tweaked) for their targets.

Kevin