On 11/10/2023 14:56, Jeff Law wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/11/23 04:39, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> I've started to look at what it is required to convert the testsuite to
>> C99 (without implicit ints, without implicit function declarations, and
>> a few other legacy language features).
> I bet those older tests originating from c-torture will be a bit painful.  
> Torbjorn liked having them minimized, to the point of squashing out nearly 
> everything he considered extraneous.  I'd bet many of those older tests are 
> going to need lots of changes.
> 

I've often wondered just how much of the original c-torture suite is still 
relevant today.  Most of those tests were written at a  time when the compiler 
expanded tree directly into RTL and I suspect that today the tests never get 
even close to tickling the original bug they were intended to validate.

R.

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