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On 2016-03-16 Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote: [...] > It seems to me as though it would be more useful for test coverage if > the meaning of GNUTLS_CPUID_OVERRIDE was changed from "assume the CPU > has exactly these extensions" to "use only these extensions, even if > the CPU has others". Pseudocode now: > if (GNUTLS_CPUID_OVERRIDE) > extensions = parse (GNUTLS_CPUID_OVERRIDE); > else > extensions = cpuid (); > Pseudocode that I think would be more useful: > extensions = cpuid (); > if (GNUTLS_CPUID_OVERRIDE) > extensions &= parse (GNUTLS_CPUID_OVERRIDE); That is actually how it is supposed to worked, however the logic was only correctly implemented for VIA extensions. > Longer-term, it would also be great if the tests (at least those that do not > require much environment setup) could be packaged as "installed tests" > similar to those in glib2.0, so that they can be re-run on systems that > differ from the buildd. I will think about that, thanks for the pointer. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
