[LLVMdev] LLVM 1.6 Release Branch

John Criswell
2005-11-02T19:51:12Z

Tanya Lattner wrote:

>
>> 1. I'm still looking for volunteers to test MacOS X and Solaris.
>> If you'd like to volunteer, please email the list to let us know.
>
>
> I'll do minimal testing on Sparc. I'm not going to look into any
> regressions though since no one has been really watching Sparc since I
> graduated and I am sure there are regressions.

Thanks!

>
>> 2. If you maintain a platform other than those listed above, you will
>> want to test the release branch for regressions.  A regression is
>> anything that worked on your platform in LLVM 1.5 that doesn't work
>> in the release branch.
>
>
> I looked at the llvm-dev archives and it seems the branch was created
> on May 13th. So we should look at May 14th nightly tester results as a
> baseline?

Yes, looking at the results from May 14 (or thereabouts) is fine.
That's what I've done for previous releases.

>
> I'd prefer not to download the 1.5, compile, and run all tests with
that.
>
> We should keep around testing results for each platform for each
> release in the future. That would make this sorta thing easier.

An XFAIL feature for the llvm-test module would be even better, but none
of us have been interested enough to add it yet.  Maybe someday.

>
> -Tanya
>
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