Re: Are big tests allowed in binutils?

[Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>]

On 17 Jun 2022, Dmitry Selyutin via Binutils outgrape:

> On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 8:11 AM Dmitry Selyutin <ghostmansd@gmail.com> wrote:
>> However, I'd like to cover various possible
>> cases, so I generated a test to cover many different operands; this
>> makes tests quite big.
>
> I forgot to mention another option. Since I generated these tests
> anyway, perhaps I could generate them in binutils instead? I used
> Python, but can rewrite it to some other language if necessary. Does
> binutils testing suite possess a way to generate tests? Perhaps we
> could use it. This would take some time upon $(make check), but not a
> critical (it's simply a bunch of nested for loops).
> An obvious option would be editing some Makefile to generate the test;
> if there's an option for ppc.exp to force such generation, I'd be more
> than happy to do that (this'd be a better alternative).

To me that feels more elegant. If the tests were autogenerated, the
generator should be in the source tree anyway, so why not use it to
generate the tests if it's there?

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