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Re: Understand GCC test process
- From: Sabrina Souto <sabrinadfs at gmail dot com>
- To: Mikhail Maltsev <maltsevm at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely dot gcc at gmail dot com>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 08:37:43 -0300
- Subject: Re: Understand GCC test process
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> See also
> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-06/msg00765.html - a proposal to add
> unit tests to GCC.
Grate work! I'll also try to use this framework.
> Probably the message is wrong. Nevertheless, IIRC, the preprocessor is also run
> as xg++. xg++ will invoke the compiler proper (cc1plus), which will perform
> preprocessing.
Good to know.
> Mostly in gcc and libcpp directories. Code from include and libiberty is also used.
> Consider looking at https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Source-Tree.html and
> gcc/Makefile.in in more detail.
>
> Finally, note that GCC has some means of test coverage analysis: you can
> configure/build it with "--disable-bootstrap --enable-coverage", run the tests
> and then use gcov.
Helpful explanation, Mikhail.
Thank you.