Testsuite patch for Solaris 10

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Fri Nov 12 22:23:00 GMT 2004


On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 10:04:17PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Janis Johnson wrote:
> 
> >   { dg-require [expr [istarget i?86-*-*] && [expr ![is-option "-m64"]]] }
> > 
> > What do you think, besides the daunting task of updating all those
> > tests?
> 
> It's not clear to me that embedding pieces of TCL code syntax in 
> individual tests - rather than dg-whatever-keyword which have defined 
> simple syntax independent of the particular test harness - is an 
> improvement.  It seems desirable for the test format to be seen as a 
> specification independent of implementation language - which might, for 
> example, be used with QMTest's DejaGnu emulation, not just with the 
> particular current harness.

Amen.  Janis, while I think your idea is an excellent one, how about
keeping all of the TCL bits in predicates in some separate .exp file?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz



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