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Date:      Fri, 26 Mar 1999 20:59:30 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        obrien@NUXI.com
Cc:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gdb 4.17
Message-ID:  <199903270359.UAA03481@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990326185418.B86672@relay.nuxi.com>
References:  <19990326170514.A86355@relay.nuxi.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903262023170.25868-100000@picnic.mat.net> <19990326185418.B86672@relay.nuxi.com>

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> > > A contribifed EGCS is ready to go.  See the March mail archives for the
> > 
> > Last I looked, you had that area kind of full of test releases,
> > magnifying the size several times over.  Have you cut it down yet ...
> > I'm asking about how many megs is it now, it was well over 100 I think
> > before, right?
>  
> Not really full of test releases, just versions 1.1.1, 1.1.2-prerelease2,
> 1.1.2-prerelease3, and 1.1.2 on vendor branches.  The diffs between them
> aren't really that large at all.  Many files are the same in 1.1.1 and
> 1.1.2.
> 
> But EGCS does encompass GCC/libg++(the parts that survived the
> standardization)/STL/G77(fortran)/test suites so it is much larger than
> src/contrib/gcc/.  The test suites do take a large chunk of space.  I
> don't know if we should commit the test suites to our tree, or not.

I say not, since it's a 'static' release as far as FreeBSD goes.
Theoretically, someone is using the test suites to make sure it works
before we make it the standar compiler, so there is no need to continue
testing it. :)



Nate


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