Re: [PATCH 2/3] ci: avoid bare "gcc" for osx-gcc job

Patrick Steinhardt
2024-05-11T17:21:35Z

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On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 03:47:39PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> > [1] Another quirk is that we run the whole test suite for both
> > compilers, which is probably overkill. The main value in comparing
> > gcc vs clang is that we don't use any constructs that the compiler
> > complains about. It's _possible_ for there to be a construct that
> > the compiler does not notice but which causes a runtime difference
> > (say, undefined behavior which happens to work out on one compiler),
> > but I think we're again hitting diminishing returns.
>
> Yeah, that is a very good point.

On Linux, we have the "pedantic" job that runs Fedora and only compiles
the sources with DEVOPTS=pedantic without running any of the tests. We
could do the same on macOS.

Patrick

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