On Thu 13 Sep 2001 06:57, Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Brian Wheeler writes:
> > This diff adds jsr_ic and ret to the interpreter. I don't know if my
> > way of returning is legal, and I know there's probably issues with 64
> > bit machines, but it works...and that's the important part :)
>
> Ok! We definitely need to get some tests into the Parrot tree. Who's
> going to step forward and do this? You can assume the presence of
> perl5 and use that to feed various programs to Parrot and test the
> successful compilation and output if you want. See the current t/
> directory for an example.
>
> In particular, I really want us to have the ability to test and prove
> that each opcode behaves correctly (and the questions raised while you
> create a test that explores every possibility of an opcode will help
> to define the assembly language, I'm sure). Later on we'll want to
> have the ability to test and prove datatype behaviour too. The goal
> is to test everything!
>
> Opcode tests would let us easily discover whether there are problems
> on 64 bit machines, let us know whether it really works, etc.
No time myself right now, but maybe someone should set up a smoke suite, just
like mine for the perl5 core, which is paying off already.
latest available is 1.07 with 1.08 expected next week
The URL
http://home.hccnet.nl/h.m.brand/Test-Smoke-1.07.tgz
has entered CPAN as
file: $CPAN/authors/id/H/HM/HMBRAND/Test-Smoke-1.07.tgz
size: 11118 bytes
md5: 3cbae66f10a63644e4641b4af4e9a60c
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