PATCH: Add a test-results section to BP page

Greg McGary greg@mcgary.org
Fri Aug 4 15:48:00 GMT 2000


OK to commit?

Index: htdocs/projects/bp/main.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/projects/bp/main.html,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -p -r1.1 main.html
--- main.html	2000/08/04 00:51:29	1.1
+++ main.html	2000/08/04 22:47:11
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ wish to assist with development or testi
 <li><a href="#toolchain">Other Links in the Toolchain</a>
 <li><a href="#building">Building GCC and glibc for Bounded Pointers</a>
 <li><a href="#testing">Testing with Bounded Pointers</a>
+<li><a href="#teststat">Status of Testing Effort</a>
 <li><a href="#knownbugs">Known Bugs</a>
 <li><a href="#porting">How to Port to a new CPU</a>
 <li><a href="#gccdetails">GCC Implementation Details</a>
@@ -481,7 +482,48 @@ $ bpmake check
 
 <li><h3>Bootstrap GCC</h3>
 
-This is more difficult.  (Stay tuned for details...)
+This one is tricky.  (Stay tuned for details...)
+
+</ul>
+
+<h2><a name="teststat">Status of Testing Effort</a></h2>
+
+Below is a list of results for packages tested with bounds checking.
+Unless otherwise noted, tests were done by me (Greg).
+
+<ul>
+
+<li><h3>GNU fileutils</h3> This package requires the <a
+href="patch-regex.txt"><code>regex.c</code> patch.</a><p>
+
+<li><h3>GNU textutils</h3> This package requires the <a
+href="patch-regex.txt"><code>regex.c</code> patch.</a><p>
+
+Bugs exposed in <code>pr</code>:
+<ul>
+<li> <code>init_header</code> writes past the end of a string buffer
+for pages with character column-width of 21 or fewer.
+<li> <code>store_columns</code> reads a column descriptor
+that was one past the end of the array of columns.
+</ul><p>
+
+<li><h3>GNU shellutils</h3> This package requires the <a
+href="patch-regex.txt"><code>regex.c</code> patch.</a><p>
+
+<li><h3>GNU awk</h3> This package requires the <a
+href="patch-regex.txt"><code>regex.c</code> patch.</a><p>
+
+100% of the test suite passes, though the maintainer admits that
+the test suite is hardly comprehensive.<p>
+
+<li><h3>GNU id-utils</h3> This package requires the <a
+href="patch-regex.txt"><code>regex.c</code> patch.</a><p>
+
+Bugs exposed in <code>mkid</code>:
+<ul>
+<li> <code>assert_hits</code> reads past the
+beginning of an array.
+</ul><p>
 
 </ul>
 


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