Re: [PATCH] Document do_test in test-skeleton.c

[Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>]

On 11/04/2016 11:47 PM, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> While working on a patch for math/test-tgmath2.c I learned some information
> about do_test and how it should work.  Here is my attempt to put that
> information into test-skeleton.c.  If it looks accurate I could put this
> information in the GLIBC Wiki too, in the "Writing a test case" section.
> The comments about writing to stdout instead of stderr is already in the Wiki,
> but the return value descriptions are not.
>
> Steve Ellcey
> sellcey@caviumnetworks.com
>
>
>
> 2016-11-04  Steve Ellcey  <sellcey@caviumnetworks.com>
>
> 	* test-skeleton.c: Document do_test usage.
>
>
> diff --git a/test-skeleton.c b/test-skeleton.c
> index 55841fb..cbd0c2d 100644
> --- a/test-skeleton.c
> +++ b/test-skeleton.c
> @@ -36,7 +36,22 @@
>
>  /* The test function is normally called `do_test' and it is called
>     with argc and argv as the arguments.  We nevertheless provide the
> -   possibility to overwrite this name.  */
> +   possibility to overwrite this name.
> +
> +   The test function should have a return type of 'int' and should

Perhaps “The TEST_FUNCTION expression should have type 'int'”?

TEST_FUNCTION is an expression, not the name of a function

> +   return 0 to indicate a passing test, 1 to indicate a failing test,
> +   or 77 to indicate an unsupported test.  Other result values could be
> +   used to indicate a failing test but since the result of the test

Comma before “but”?

> +   function is passed to exit and exit only returns the lower 8 bits of
> +   its input a non-zero return with some values could cause a test to
> +   incorrectly be considered passing when it really failed. For this
> +   reason tests should always return 0, 1, or 77.
> +
> +   The test function may print out diagnostic or warning messages as well
> +   as messages about failures.  These messages should be printed to stdout
> +   and not stderr so that the output is properly ordered with respect to
> +   the rest of the glibc testsuite run output.  */

Rest looks good to me.

Thanks,
Florian