Re: Is there an Ada testsuite?

[Laurent Guerby <guerby at acm dot org>]

Christian Jönsson wrote:

> I have a simple quetsion; is there an Ada testsuite available when
> running the test suite for gcc-3.1? (I'm hoping there is, there should
> be, right?)
> 
> If there is such a thing, could someone perhaps explain a little why
> it's not in the sources? (I'm suspecting a copyright issue here....)
> 
> If there is an Ada testsuite available somewhere, would it be a good
> thing, or a bad thing, to chip in these tests and run the gcc tests
> with it while we wait for the legal stuff to settle? (rms-follower or
> breaker?)


I built simple sh scripts in november 2000 that automatically run
the executable part of the official Ada testsuite "ACATS"
with GNAT, Joel did put them on RTEMS ftp site :


<http://www.oarcorp.com/rtems/maillistArchives/rtems-users/2000/november/msg00159.html>

The copyright status of the tests has been cleared by FSF lawyers in 
late 2001,
and a few people were able to run them on various targets, if you need
the latest version of the scripts and some assistance, just drop me an 
email.

The plan is to commit the prepackaged "easy to compile and run" sources 
of the interesting
part of the executable testsuite plus documentation
on what was dropped and choices made together with a simple "contrib"
script that run the thing, then may be someone will contribute
the needed glue to run it more consistently with the rest
of the GCC testsuite mechanism and eventually in a point
in the future running it successfully will be part
of the standard backend patch procedure (may be for 3.2).

I volunteered to do the first part in december, but haven't
finished the work yet due to a free time crunsh, things
at work seem to be slowing down after a
huge peak at the beginning of the year so there's hope :).

-- 
Laurent Guerby <guerby@acm.org>