Re: [Boost-users] Negative effect of expected-to-fail tests in compiler development projects.

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Negative effect of expected-to-fail tests in compiler development projects.
From: Aparna Kumta (aparna.kumta_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-12-17 20:22:12

On 12/14/15 10:23, John Maddock wrote:
>
> I understand all that, but remember that this is written by 
> volunteers, and that we have no real need for what you want to do - 
> our aim is to test source code and catch regressions, not to test 
> compilers as such.  So I'm afraid you'll probably have to patch things 
> yourself :(
>
> How about gutting the contents of of the compile-fail rule in 
> tools/build/src/tools/testing.jam?
>
Thanks for the suggestion. This is very useful to remove the 'noise' 
generated by the expected-to-fail tests while looking for real compiler 
issues.

Aparna

> HTH, John.
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