> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 13:28
> To: Robert Dubner <rdub...@symas.com>
> Cc: James K. Lowden <jklow...@cobolworx.com>; Richard Biener
> <rguent...@suse.de>; gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] cobol, v2: Get rid of __int128 uses in the COBOL FE
> [PR119242]
>
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 10:21:31AM -0500, Robert Dubner wrote:
> > > Here is a fixed patch, passes make check-cobol, but that is
> unfortunately
> > > still not enough.
> >
> > With this second fixed patch, all of our tests pass.
>
> Great.
>
> Is the patch ok for trunk then, or do you plan to review it or will
> James do that?
That's all "my" code, as opposed to "Jim's" code. Go ahead and push it.
>
> > Implicit criticism about tests accepted. I have 679 UAT tests, and
now
> > I've got the bit in my teeth, and I am creating a process that will
> > convert as many as I can to DejaGnu. However: the autom4te and
DejaGnu
> > principles, practices, and philosophies are almost, but not quite,
> > completely unlike each other.
>
> Didn't mean to criticize in any way, just mention that because we have
> just 23 tests so far, the UAT/NIST testing you are doing is a
precondition
> for any non-trivial FE changes and that testing wasn't done on my side.
>
> Jakub
Jakub, I just spoke with Jim. I am developing a deeper understanding of
why the industry average for coding is what, ten lines a day? I write
five lines of Python. During that time, fourteen patches come in; I get a
phone call from Jim about changing the design of the front end because of
what we're learning, and my boss calls because somehow the company website
got trashed and I need to rebuild and upload all of the packages we make
available on that site because they are now at one with the snows of
yesteryear.
I don't feel criticized. I feel harried!
