test-strerror regression test
David Leimbach
leimy2k at mac.com
Mon Apr 21 07:35:59 PDT 2003
On Monday, April 21, 2003, at 09:02AM, Mike Barcroft <mike at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>David Leimbach <leimy2k at mac.com> writes:
>> I guess my point was I didn't know how to make these "conform" when I
>> looked
>> at the POSIX standard for SUS. All it said about strerror is that any
>> int should
>> work and return a string per the locale that is currently set.
>
>I agree with Tim; the main purpose is to prevent regressions in our
>implementation, not to evaluate conformance to any given standard. In
>fact, I created the test to ensure I didn't break strerror() or
>strerror_r() while fixing a conformance bug in strerror_r().
Well yes... that is what a regression would be :). But I think a standards
compliance test suite wouldn't hurt either :).
Whether or not we regress doesn't matter much if we don't conform to
the standard to begin with... it just means we haven't changed behavior.
>
>> > cc -O -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro test-wmemset.c -o test-wmemset
>> > for p in test-strerror test-wcschr test-wcscmp test-wcslen
>> > test-wmemchr test-wmemset; do
>> > /home/tim/p4/wchar/src/tools/regression/lib/libc/string/$p; done
>> > PASS strerror()
>>
>> Failed for me due to failing assertions.
>
>What's the output of:
>
>ident /usr/lib/libc.so.* | grep strerror.c
>
I am not at that machine at the moment. I just did a new
buildworld/installworld before leaving for work today. I can check this at lunch.
Dave
>Best regards,
>Mike Barcroft
>
>
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