[IPCop-devel] Testing gcc-4.4.6 upgrade

[Gilles E. <g....@fr...>]

Looking in the test suite result, the difference was one test
- busybox-1.17.4 FAIL 'date-R-works'
That fail on gcc-4.4.6 the first time but work the second time I tried.
This test should be racy, it mostly work but sometime fail, so that should
be only noise.

- gdb-7.2 there is less failures, the diff show
 Running ./gdb.base/miscexprs.exp ...
-FAIL: gdb.base/miscexprs.exp: print value of ibig.i[100] | 1
-FAIL: gdb.base/miscexprs.exp: print value of sbig.s[90] & 127
-FAIL: gdb.base/miscexprs.exp: print value of !ibig.i[100]
-FAIL: gdb.base/miscexprs.exp: print value of !sbig.s[90]
-FAIL: gdb.base/miscexprs.exp: print value of !ibig.i[100]
-FAIL: gdb.base/miscexprs.exp: print value of !ibig.i[100]
-FAIL: gdb.base/miscexprs.exp: print value of !sbig.s[90] * 10
-FAIL: gdb.base/miscexprs.exp: print value of ibig.i[100] * sbig.s[90]
-FAIL: gdb.base/miscexprs.exp: print value of fbig.f[100] * dbig.d[202]
-FAIL: gdb.base/miscexprs.exp: print value of !(sbig.s[90] * 2)
-FAIL: gdb.base/miscexprs.exp: print value of ibig.i[100] << 2
-FAIL: gdb.base/miscexprs.exp: print value of sbig.s[90] >> 4
-FAIL: gdb.base/miscexprs.exp: print value of lbig.l[333] >> 6
 Running ./gdb.base/float.exp ...
 Running ./gdb.base/longjmp.exp ...
 FAIL: gdb.base/longjmp.exp: next over longjmp(1)
@@ -221,8 +207,8 @@

   === gdb Summary ===

-# of expected passes  5178
-# of unexpected failures 20
+# of expected passes  5191
+# of unexpected failures 7

So that's not bad.
The full gdb test had some other FAIL, the total FAIL number is reduced from
38 to 25.

Looking at the log diff, using some sed -i -e 's|4\.4\.5|4.4.6|g' to reduce
the noise, I find nothing alarming, just the usual noise log.

So gcc-4.4.6 should just be something good.
The drawback is that there is 497 files that are different and not yet
include in update.
I haven't checked which include gcc version and which are differently
compiled.

Is it the time to update gcc?

Gilles