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Re: [PATCH 00/17] RFC: Addding a unit testing framework to gcc
- From: Mike Stump <mikestump at comcast dot net>
- To: David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 12:58:29 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] RFC: Addding a unit testing framework to gcc
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On Jun 10, 2015, at 10:16 AM, David Malcolm <dmalcolm@redhat.com> wrote:
> It doesn't have an output formatter for the DejaGnu format, but I guess
> I could write one. The gtest standard output format is IMHO superior to
> DejaGnu's since it tells you start-of-test/end-of-test on separate
> lines, so you can see which test killed things in the event of total
> failure,
dejagnu is superior, total failure isn’t allowed. We treat it as a bug to be fixed in the framework, not a bug to be fixed in the tool under test.