Robert Dewar wrote:

2. Tests that come with patches. For some time now, AdaCore has
been following a procedure of including a simple reduced test
case for all patches to GNAT that are submitted to the FSF.
These tests are pretty extensive at this stage, and are preserved
in the patch submission files. However, no one has assembled them
into a harness that can be practically used. This would be a
really useful contribution to improved stability of the FSF
version of GNAT. AdaCore does not have the resources to do
this, but it is a project that someone else could certainly
take on.

Sorry, my information was out of date here, in fact a test
harness has been set up, and many of these tests are incorporated.
Furtheremore, Arno is now incorporating new tests into this
harness as they are submitted.

So we are in better shape than implied above. We have quite
a reasonable set of stability and regression tests for the
Ada front end. Given the restrictions on proprietary code
use, this is about as good as we can do for now. Of course
it is valuable if people submit more tests to this test suite.

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