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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.



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