Re: [boost] A question to release manager. Was: [typeof] please make native tests expected failures on HP-UX

From: Peder Holt (peder.holt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-18 05:47:18

2007/1/18, Arkadiy Vertleyb <vertleyb_at_[hidden]>:
> "Boris Gubenko" <Boris.Gubenko_at_[hidden]> wrote
>
> >   The issue is that, like other compilers, including such EDG-based
> >   compilers as como-4_3_3-vc7_1 and cxx on Tru64, the HP-UX aCC6 compiler
> >   does not support typeof keyword in default mode (both cxx and aCC6
> >   support it in Gnu dialect mode). For toolsets using compilers that do
> not
> >   support typeof keyword, the "*_native" group of typeof library tests is
> >   marked expected failure (there are some 19 tests in this group). The
> >   patch below adds "acc" to the list of these toolsets. Please, apply it
> >   to CVS HEAD and the RC branch.
>
> This is a simple change in explicit-failures-markup.xml.  The question is,
> should we (are we allowed to at this point) apply a change that is not
> related to a release compiler?

I already commited the changes to the release branch...

There are regression results for this compiler for the RC branch.
What other criterias are needed to categorize a compiler as a release compiler?

If this turns out to be an issue, I'll revert the changes.

Regards,
Peder

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> Regards,
> Arkadiy
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