Peter Memishian wrote:
> 
>  > It depends on how you define "sufficient way to test". I was often
>  > thinking about writing a OS/Net tree-wide patch for that... but I think
>  > this would be wasted work as long as we have to match the "requirement"
>  > that such a patch must be tested with all possible/imaginable codepaths
>  > (which is impossible for a single engineer (and even more difficult
>  > since I lack Sun's test suites) ... and I wish the barrier could be
>  > lowered to "... must result in a booting and running OS/Net which can be
>  > used for OS/Net development without problems... " - that would be a goal
>  > which we could archive quickly) ... ;-(
> 
> The policy for the gate is "FCS quality, all the time".

... and therefore we will never be able to fix this (well, I could argue
about compiler updates like the Studio 10 ---> Studio 11 update which
broke C99 VLA support... but I better stop throwing that stone
around...).

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Bye,
Roland

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