Re: math/test-tgmath3 test case size...

[Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>]

On Fri, 16 Feb 2018, DJ Delorie wrote:

> > It could easily enough be split up by function (list the functions in the 
> > makefile, generate a .c file for each function, include a test that 
> > verifies that the list of functions in the makefile does match the list in 
> > the script itself of functions for which it can generate tests).  Tests of 
> > fma make up nearly a third of the total, however (since that has the most 
> > type-generic arguments).
> 
> Could the generating script take a parameter N that says "emit every Nth
> function" and just generate, say, 10 files?  I.e. run "./generate 1
> test-tgmath3-1.c" then "./generate 2 test-tgmath3-2.c" etc ?

You'd be effectively generating all the tests 10 times and throwing most 
of them away every time (though since the script takes under a second to 
run, that may not be too much of a problem), whereas when generating 73 
files, one for each of the 73 macros being tested, you could easily make 
gen-tgmath-tests.py not do the work for the 72 macros it's not been asked 
to generate tests for.  (Also, I'd rather that test names are meaningfully 
stable rather than having test-tgmath3-1 mean something completely 
different every time something about this test changes - though in this 
case, either all of test-tgmath3 should pass, or there should be lots of 
failures if there's been a buggy change to tgmath.h.)

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com