* 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