From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec.gnu@mindspring.com>
Cc: jimb@redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Technical criteria for retaining symbol readers
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:14:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40D9E494.6030405@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040623195109.E8A974B104@berman.michael-chastain.com>
> jimb> I'd also like to have some kind of requirement for testability.
>
> I would, too. My preference would be that we look at gdb-testers@
> and if there are no test results for feature X for the past N years,
> that counts against keeping feature X. gcc uses that as one factor
> in deciding whether to obsolete stuff.
That's been suggested in the past. It was pointed out that some systems
can't run the testsuite (DJGPP) so on its own it wasn't reasonable
(neither is assuming that the presence of test results stops an
architecture being removed :-).
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-23 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-23 19:50 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2004-06-23 20:14 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2004-06-28 23:59 ` Jim Blandy
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2004-06-21 15:39 Andrew Cagney
2004-06-23 18:44 ` Jim Blandy
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