Re: [boost] Re: Testing with various compilers [was operators.hpp ...]

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-06-20 09:27:22

At 08:31 AM 6/19/2000 -0500, Ed Brey wrote:

 >From: "Beman Dawes" <beman_at_[hidden]>
 >>
 >> Third question for each compiler is how do you tell if a compilation
 >has
 >> errors?  For VC++ I am grepping the output for "error" for lack of a
 >better
 >> way.
 >
 >A solution to this problem is a more complete test.  Rather than
 >looking for compiler errors, the script can try to run the compiled
 >test harness and then compare the output against a known good output.
 >If the compiler thinks there are errors in the library, the test will
 >fail since there won't be an executable of the test harness.
 >
 >Testing run-time output is something we should do anyway, given that
 >we have experience with compilers occasionally accepting code and then
 >generating incorrect binaries.  The amount of work required should be
 >minimal, since the thoroughness of the test harness required to test
 >the library should also adequately test the compiler.

Yes, agreed.  But one step at a time.  Enough trouble just getting compiles 
to work.  Also see my reply to Lois's message.

--Beman