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Re: [patch] minimal test case for sha-1 and md5
Andrew Haley wrote:
> Tom Tromey writes:
> > >>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Tobler <toa@pop.agri.ch> writes:
> >
> > Andreas> My motivation with these two tests was simply not to forget a
> > Andreas> test, we need every single test even if they are small. And
> > Andreas> they would have shown us in gcc world that something has been
> > Andreas> broken.
> >
> > Often one of us has to rewrite a test case into Mauve form.
> > Library tests really belong in Mauve, not libgcj. That way they can
> > be shared among all Classpath users.
>
> In this particular case, I want message digest tests in the libgcj
> testsuite because they test important system components and are also
> an excellent test of the compiler. Everyone who builds gcc and runs
> "make check" gets to run these tests, rather than the three people in
> the world who routinely run Mauve.
Should we create another testsuite directory (say libjava.other) and put
the tests in there? To me libjava.lang implies tests related to
java.lang.**, and to date it seems that most of the tests there only test
things in the java.lang packages.
David Daney.