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Re: [PATCH] {yacc-work} tests: remove redundancy from silent lex/yacc te


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: [PATCH] {yacc-work} tests: remove redundancy from silent lex/yacc tests
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 10:26:59 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2010-08-04)

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 10:01:40AM CET:

[ snip long explanation ]
>  * Hence I wrote the present patch.  Two important things to note about
>    it:
>     - It's not a *bugfix*, just an optimization (in terms of testsuite
>       speed, size, and simplicity).
>     - The separation:
>         silent5.test => silent-many-generic.test, silent-many-gcc.test
>       is still in place, because it's *really* needed (otherwise, we'll
>       start to expereince again spurious failures with C compilers !=
>       from gcc).
> 
> Does this makes sense?

Yes, kind of.  It shows that we spend too much time breaking, fixing,
and perfecting the testsuite.

Patch is OK.

Thanks for the explanation,
Ralf



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