On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:35 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.to...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > This 4.3 regression: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38905 > > is caused by a backport, which also introduced a 4.3 > regression: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36765
It uncovered a latent problem. Of course doing that still makes it a regression. > Since we didn't backport testcases to 4.3 branch, we > didn't notice 4.3 regression when the packport was > applied to 4.3 branch. If we will backport bug fixes > to 4.3 branch, shouldn't we always backport testcases > for all 4.4 regressions? This would be probably a good idea, but it is extra work and may cause extra testsuite FAILs between releases that are not regressions (simply because only the testcase is new). Richard.
