Re: Proposed PATCH: cplus-dem test suite

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <87zp4s6v2q.fsf@cygnus.com>you write:
  > To this end, I propose the appended patch.  It adds some new files to
  > libiberty, and arranges for `make check' to run the test suite (but
  > only when libiberty is configured as a native library; the test suite
  > is disabled for the target library case).  The test suite has 615
  > tests, including a test for the bug I was originally trying to fix.
Cool!  I haven't looked at the patch itself, but building up a real testsuite
for some of the libibierty code (like cplus-dem.c) is a good thing.

We've been using gdb as a surrogate for testing demangling and disassembly
(and maybe other stuff I can't remember) putting together real, direct
testsuites for the demangling and disassembly code would be a significant
step forward.

jeff