Re: generating type tests

[Andrew Cagney <cagney at redhat dot com>]

My hunch it is trying to do too much - simultaneously acting as both 
filter and generator.  For instance:
-> structs is created from a brute force table
-> scalars is generated using a for loop
would it be better to separate these steps out, perhaps also having a 
separate data file, then this can be implemented as one or more filters.

As things advance, will the types that need to be tested become too 
complex for this scripting technique?  For instance:
   struct foo { int i; } f = { 1 };
   struct bar { struct foo* f; struct bar *b;};
   struct bar b = { NULL, NULL }
   struct bar bp = { &f, &b };
I wonder if letting the user describe the types in C, and output in 
comments, and then filter that to generate the tests is better?  Vis:
   // TEST: bp
   // TYPE: struct bar { struct foo *f; struct bar *b}
   // VALUE: { 0x.*, 0x.* }
   // STYPE: struct bar
is going to be easier to work on.  Similarly, chosing simple values may 
make it easier.

Andrew