Testing suite for gdc for D1 and D2

[Vincenzo Ampolo]

Michael P.  wrote:

> One possible choice is to make 1 file, for D1 and D2, that we run 
after
> each release. It would have to be fairly large, testing lots of 
different
> things. If this compiled and ran correctly, it would mean that the 
changes
> you made haven't affected other parts of the compiler. So, like 
DStress,
> but smaller test case, and only 1 file.

Hi Michael :)

Well, i've played a bit with dstress and it's exactly what you stated, 
but instead of being in a separate file, there are many files ordered 
in subdirs which are called one by one and checked. The output is 
standard and Christian K from ldc had wrote a d program to format this 
output to an html representation.
So i think the way is to follow the dstress path and maybe add some 
scripts.
Having only one large file can be painful if the lang specs change 
(like in D2). In this case, modifying a large file of all tests can be 
painful.

See you :D

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