Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 12 Nov 2001 20:53:28 -0800 | From | Dan Kegel <> | Subject | Re: Regression testing of 2.4.x before release? |
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"Timothy D. Witham" wrote: > > On Sun, 2001-11-11 at 22:24, Dan Kegel wrote: > > At some point it might be nice to also use the STP to help > > speed gcc 3 development, too. (I personally am really > > looking forward to the day when I can use the same compiler > > for both c++ and kernel.) > > Strange, I was just talking to somebody about compiler > performance and regression issues and what sort of automation > could be done to do that sort of testing. > > Since the STP is really a framework and just about any piece > of software and testing environment could be worked into it. > > So I guess you could have two pieces. One that just ran a bunch > of compile and user level tests and then one that went in and > checked out the compiler on a kernel tree and then ran the > same performance tests that had been run using the "standard" > compiler.
Go/no-go tests, where you make sure a kernel compiled with gcc 3 actually works, might be appropriate for starters. I don't know if that's been established yet.
> Are you stepping forward to integrate this into STP? :-)
I wish! Alas, tendinitis makes hacking hazardous for me for now.
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