From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22455 invoked by alias); 26 Oct 2004 23:32:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact mauve-discuss-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: mauve-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 22448 invoked from network); 26 Oct 2004 23:32:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jbox) (80.138.248.145) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 26 Oct 2004 23:32:40 -0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by jbox with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CMant-0003cm-Qs; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:32:37 +0000 Message-ID: <417EDE95.4080401@kaffe.org> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:32:00 -0000 From: Dalibor Topic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041007 Debian/1.7.3-5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tromey@redhat.com CC: Mauve News Group Subject: Re: virtual machine tests References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-q4/txt/msg00030.txt.bz2 Tom Tromey wrote: > I've been doing some surgery on the VM parts of libgcj, and it occurs > to me that there isn't really a comprehensive test suite for this. I > think it is time to set one up. > > My current plan is to make a new Mauve module called "vm", and put > tests there. Of the many test frameworks we have at the moment, I > find jacks is the easiest to work with (and most appropriate for this > kind of testing), so I think I will just copy that framework and use > it. Eventually I'd like to move the verifier tests here as well. > > It will be a little while before I set this up for real. Send email > if you have an objection or comment. Sounds cool. I guess we could mirror the JVMS hierarchy in the tests like jacks does for JLS. All I've found last time around when I looked for VM tests was the tests in Jcon [1]. cheers, dalibor topic [1] http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/jcon/