Re: Power of the G++ test suite

[Ben Scherrey <scherrey at gte dot net>]

FWIW I just check into it and Plum Hall charges $20K for their
testsuite!! I've got a small development shop and cannot justify $20K
(per suite, there's C++, the C++ Std Lib, and Java that we'd need =
$60K) to find out what aspects of our compilers aren't exactly like the
book wants it. Certainly we do test code in house for known (or
possiblly known) issues but building a more public version of these test
cases would be a great benifit.
	
	later,

		Ben Scherrey
		Proteus Technologies, Inc.

Jason Merrill wrote:
> On the other hand, Cygnus already licenses the Plum Hall and Perennial C++
> testsuites, so we do have those results to call on.  I've just been using
> the Plum Hall results to complete the g++ namespace implementation (which
> should now be quite solid).
> 
> Unfortunately, we can't share these results with the net, due to licensing
> restrictions, and this is the first time I've done this sort of thing; I
> haven't had much time to sit down with the testsuite results and blow
> through a bunch of failures like this.
> 
> Jason