Standard C Library complance test suite

2012-03-30 Thread Peter Miller
Hi Folks, I'm looking for a Standard C Library compliance test suite. I'd prefer an open source one, preferably with a license more liberal than GPL, e.g. BSD or MIT, which is why I can't just use the tests in the glibc sources. Can anyone suggest projects that I should look at? -- Regards Pet

Re: Standard C Library complance test suite

2012-03-30 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
Hi I'm not a DD but ... I thought on Gnu site if you get and compile the compiler it already has a test suite, for C anyway (i have not tried it personally). Peter Miller wrote: Hi Folks, I'm looking for a Standard C Library compliance test suite. I'd prefer an open source one, preferably

Re: Standard C Library complance test suite

2012-03-30 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi, On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 7:17 PM, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell < johnandsa...@cox.net> wrote: > I thought on Gnu site if you get and compile the compiler it already has a > test suite, for C anyway (i have not tried it personally). > He mentions in the message that he's looking for

Re: Standard C Library complance test suite

2012-03-30 Thread Peter Miller
On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 20:02 +1100, Peter Miller wrote: > I'm looking for a Standard C Library compliance test suite. I'd prefer > an open source one, preferably with a license more liberal than GPL, > e.g. BSD or MIT, which is why I can't just use the tests in the glibc > sources. newlib, used by

Re: Standard C Library complance test suite

2012-03-31 Thread Peter Miller
On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 16:24 +1100, Peter Miller wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 20:02 +1100, Peter Miller wrote: > > I'm looking for a Standard C Library compliance test suite. I'd prefer > > an open source one, preferably with a license more liberal than GPL, > > e.g. BSD or MIT, which is why I ca

Re: Standard C Library complance test suite

2012-03-31 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
Oh sorry. I saw BSD MIT not glibc. And I've never heard a complaint about GPL. Kernigan / Ritche wrote C I can't think you'd ever erase that however :) Pascal might be more! While cygwin may have a "suite" they are a private company I wouldn't bet to dl and use it without a lawyer reading a

Re: Standard C Library complance test suite

2012-04-02 Thread Lars Seipel
On Saturday, March 31, 2012 05:19:02 PM John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell wrote: > While cygwin may have a "suite" they are a private company I wouldn't bet to > dl and use it without a lawyer reading any "corporate provided license" > they've wrote, my personal preference that is. Newlib is f

Re: Standard C Library complance test suite

2012-04-02 Thread David Weinehall
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 08:02:32PM +1100, Peter Miller wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'm looking for a Standard C Library compliance test suite. I'd prefer > an open source one, preferably with a license more liberal than GPL, > e.g. BSD or MIT, which is why I can't just use the tests in the glibc > sou

Re: Standard C Library complance test suite

2012-04-02 Thread Peter Miller
On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 19:39 +0200, David Weinehall wrote: > So, I'm curious here: why would you need a non-copyleft license for a > *test suite*? Consider the case where a legal department was worried about the code repository becoming "tainted" with uncontrolled or ill-considered GPL obligations

Re: Standard C Library complance test suite

2012-04-04 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 09:55:19AM +1000, Peter Miller wrote: > On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 19:39 +0200, David Weinehall wrote: > > So, I'm curious here: why would you need a non-copyleft license for a > > *test suite*? > > Consider the case where a legal department was worried about the code > reposit

Re: Standard C Library complance test suite

2012-04-05 Thread Miles Bader
David Weinehall writes: >> Consider the case where a legal department was worried about the code >> repository becoming "tainted" with uncontrolled or ill-considered GPL >> obligations. > > If the legal department is that incompetent it's about time they got > replaced by more competent people...

Re: Standard C Library complance test suite

2012-04-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Miles Bader writes: > I think in many cases, the issue is not really an "incompetent" legal > department per se, but a culture of risk-avoidance combined with a legal > department that doesn't really gain much either way and incompetent > high-level management (in the sense that they don't spend