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From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
	Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] support: Introduce new subdirectory for test infrastructure
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 14:16:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa3c0fbe-6019-fca7-c33b-f5989427b565@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b54872a2-ed56-8f13-419c-651ee025b21f@redhat.com>

On 11/29/2016 01:41 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 11/29/2016 12:11 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
>> In the new style, what is the recommended way of doing a
>> compile-only test (tests that presently do "#define TEST_FUNCTION
>> 0", like elf/tst-linkall-static.c)?  Define a dummy test function
>> that just returns 0?
> 
> Yes, that would be my preference for the time being.  I hope that we
> will get real compile-time tests eventually.  we really need them to
> check the fortify functionality and its warnings and errors.

That's certainly a use case that has failure modes we need to test.

I spent quite a while trying to get compile-time tests to work and there is a
lot of surgery required to make it work as expected and have the overrides
work correctly.

Even then the final solution I had was overly simplistic and didn't allow
layering of tests because the source to test mapping was quite simple.

FYI: https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-06/msg00162.html

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-30 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-28 20:30 Florian Weimer
2016-11-28 21:51 ` Florian Weimer
2016-11-28 22:58   ` Andreas Schwab
2016-11-29  7:52     ` Florian Weimer
2016-12-02 19:21       ` Carlos O'Donell
2016-12-05 15:57         ` Florian Weimer
2016-12-07 13:20           ` Florian Weimer
2016-12-08 14:29           ` Carlos O'Donell
2016-12-10 15:08           ` Andreas Schwab
2016-12-10 19:17             ` Florian Weimer
2016-12-10 19:39               ` Andreas Schwab
2016-12-12 10:00                 ` Florian Weimer
2016-12-12 18:16                   ` Andreas Schwab
2016-12-10 15:23           ` [PATCH] Fix testsuite timeout handling Andreas Schwab
2016-12-10 15:36             ` Florian Weimer
2016-11-28 23:11 ` [PATCH] support: Introduce new subdirectory for test infrastructure Joseph Myers
2016-11-29  6:41   ` Florian Weimer
2016-11-30 14:16     ` Carlos O'Donell [this message]
2016-12-12 13:12 ` Stefan Liebler
2016-12-12 14:50   ` Florian Weimer
2016-12-12 16:38     ` Stefan Liebler
2016-12-12 22:16       ` Florian Weimer

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