[dmd-internals] dmd test suite

[Rainer Schuetze]

Hi,

I've been running the dmd test suite rather often lately, so I want to 
share some observations:

- most of the tests are using assert() for run-time tests, but these 
don't get compiled into the code when -release is passed on the command 
line. Considering -release being part of the permutated options, doesn't 
this make half of the runs very unlikely to fail? A workaround would be 
to always add -unittest, which causes dmd to keep asserts in release builds.

- the quick tests could cover more of dmds' code if optimizations are 
run and debug information is generated. I suggest adding options "-O 
-inline -g" to the quick test run for runnable and compilable tests. 
This increases build time a bit (4 minutes instead of 3 minutes on my 
system), but it also shows errors in tests test49, testaa, fail39, fail4 
and xtestenum.

Rainer