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Date:      Sat, 12 Jan 2019 12:40:31 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>, Andrew Turner <andrew@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r342963 - head/tests/sys/kern
Message-ID:  <201901122040.x0CKeVYC027664@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfpZBbC%2BrPHm3sQWw8BAGzYdwctw7fAYst2UrfYbMbKZRg@mail.gmail.com>

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> On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 12:10 PM Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > > On Jan 12, 2019, at 3:50 AM, Andrew Turner <andrew@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Author: andrew
> > > Date: Sat Jan 12 11:50:39 2019
> > > New Revision: 342963
> > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/342963
> > >
> > > Log:
> > >  Temporarily disable the kcov tests. Not all architectures have
> > >  atomic_store_64 and atomic_store_64.
> > >
> > >  Sponsored by:        DARPA, AFRL
> >
> > Hi Andrew,
> >         Would it make more sense to conditionally enable the tests on some
> > architectures instead of disabling it on all architectures?
> >
> 
> No. Let's stop doing that. Either the architectures provide the 64-bit
> stuff, or they will remain broken and removed.

That makes a counter incentive for people to just break 32 bit archs
with no reason to bother fixing them.  This is a bad idea.


-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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