Re: Testsuite patch for Solaris 10

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

Janis Johnson wrote:

> > > It's not clear to me that embedding pieces of TCL code syntax in 
> > > individual tests - rather than dg-whatever-keyword which have defined 
> > > simple syntax independent of the particular test harness - is an 
> > > improvement.  It seems desirable for the test format to be seen as a 
> > > specification independent of implementation language - which might, for 
> > > example, be used with QMTest's DejaGnu emulation, not just with the 
> > > particular current harness.
> > >      
> > Amen.  Janis, while I think your idea is an excellent one, how about
> > keeping all of the TCL bits in predicates in some separate .exp file?
I too would like to avoid Tcl in the actual tests themselves.  That's 
partly to be able to swap out DejaGNU, and partly because a lot of 
people writing tests do not know all the ins and outs of Tcl.

> > enough.  Joseph, can you hold off for a few days so I can try to find
> > a way to support conditional expressions within the test framework
> > other than via TCL?
Joseph, if you've not already checked in, would you please hold off as 
Janis asks?  As she is the testsuite maintainer, her opinion should 
count more than mine, and if there is a cleaner way to do things, that 
would be great.  If you've already checked in, I guess it's up to Janis 
whether she wants you to back out your changes.

Thanks,

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