Hi,
I have this x86-64 ABI testsuite I worked on lately again (after some
years lingering around, it was first written when we did the port on
simulators still). It currently lies on cvs.x86-64.org in the 'abitest'
module, for the curious (it has anoncvs too).
I would like to somehow integrate this into GCC, so that it is run
automatically when doing a make check. I've pondered about several ways
to do this:
1) add something like --with-abitest=/dir/to/abitest to gccs configure
make check could then use this external path to run the ABI testsuite
2) mirror the testsuite somehow inside GCC's CVS to be tighly integrated
I'm not sure which way is best. The second one has the advantage that you
can't miss running it, when just checking out GCC and developing on it.
The first one has the advantage the GCC's CVS would not be clobbered with
something external, and very architecture specific.
Currently the testsuite contains some testcase generators written in C,
and some hand-written testcases. I'm thinking about rewriting the
generators at least in something better suited to text manipulation, i.e.
bash or perl. What would be the feeling having such kind of stuff in
GCC's CVS?
Basically I'm looking for some consensus how to make my above goal happen.
So anyone any suggestions, ideas, flames?
Ciao,
Michael.
