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Re: QMTest and the G++ testsuite
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: 20 May 2002 13:49:06 -0300
- Subject: Re: QMTest and the G++ testsuite
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <69370000.1021911534@warlock.codesourcery.com>
On May 20, 2002, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> At present, you can specify an "interpreter" which is supposed to have
> the property that:
> interpreter program arg1 arg2 ...
> Now, there is the question of writing the interpreters for various
> setups; you need the logic to zap the code to the target board, run it,
> extract the output, zap it back.
How about running the *build* on a separate machine? You have to
upload any source test files, run the compiler remotely, and download
the executable back. This is an important feature of the test
framework, especially if the test framework cannot run on the host
whose compiler you intend to test.
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