Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and copyleft [LWN.net]

Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and copyleft

Posted Jan 30, 2014 1:11 UTC (Thu) by PaXTeam (guest, #24616)
In reply to: Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and copyleft by nix
Parent article: Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and copyleft

> but the rest of the compiler has a 50,000+ test testsuite to make sure it doesn't regress. Plugins don't.

unless of course you run said regression tests with your plugins loaded :).

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Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and copyleft

Posted Jan 30, 2014 13:56 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

Yeah, and I'm sure the authors of major plugins do that. Basically nobody else does though, and you have to do a bunch of fiddling about with RUNTEST_FLAGS and perhaps even the .exp scripts to make it work.

Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and copyleft

Posted Jan 30, 2014 19:11 UTC (Thu) by PaXTeam (guest, #24616) [Link]

i usually just set TEST_ALWAYS_FLAGS in site.exp to load the plugins.