[Bug ada/5909] Ada has no test suite.

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------- Additional Comments From jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk  2003-10-22 18:55 -------
Subject: Re:  Ada has no test suite.

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, laurent at guerby dot net wrote:

> Joel Sherrill did run my original script with a cross-compiler
> on a simulator and IIRC he had trouble running dejagnu (much
> more complicated to set up).

For dejagnu we have instructions (simtest-howto.html) that enable someone
with a major patch to test (so needing to test it on three platforms) to
run simulator tests without needing to understand setting up Dejagnu for
cross targets.  Does this Ada harness need another column for that table,
or something more complicated?

> At -O0 the current ACATS run is done in 45 minutes on a P3 1GHz. We can
> easily add a loop over compile options, but at some point
> there will be some thinking about what we want to require for patch
> and what is optional in the GCC testsuites.

I don't think ACATS needs running over multiple options - but where Ada
code has shown up a back end bug (as in many of the testcases Kenner has
sent to the lists), running over multiple options may be more useful.