Guidance and Testing Architectures

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Philip Herron <herron.philip@googlemail.com> writes:

> I have been playing around with GCC for some time now, tracing how it
> works etc. Looking for a regression to tackle, but a lot of
> regressions are architecture specific, i was wondering what is the
> best way to test GCC for cross-architecture problems.
>
> As in do you use QEMU to run different architectures or is it best to
> run on a server. It would be great if i could get some guidance on
> where to start as in what regressions are still relevant as some are
> very old or are there any new projects to do something new in gcc to
> get involved in :). So far i have only built my own simple front-end
> some i understand some of how gcc works.

One approach is at http://gcc.gnu.org/simtest-howto.html .

Ian