Euphoria
Ticket #135:
Ability to test code on other platforms
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Reported by
mattlewis
Feb 13, 2010
It might be useful for the interpreter to accept the -plat argument. The effect would be similar to the translator, but with the additional effect of adding the -test argument.
This would provide a way to test to see if some change had been made that broke platforms other than the one on which you were currently working. The main purpose for this would be to add a unit test for the standard library (and probably the various front ends, too) to ensure that they weren't obviously broken.
It wouldn't be meant to be a thorough test, but would catch obvious mistakes like missing a declaration on a platform.
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1. Comment by SPringle
May 14, 2010
The syntax would be checked but in the end, you need to actually test it on the said platform to know it is correct anyway.
2. Comment by mattlewis
May 14, 2010
Yes, it obviously wouldn't allow real testing, but could allow us to catch mistakes earlier.
3. Comment by jeremy
Dec 08, 2010
When I began working on OpenBSD working through issues there an entire of section of code looked like:
elsedef
constant abc = 1,
def = 2
xyz = 10
abc123 = 99
Needless to say it didn't compile. All of our current tests didn't catch it, nor did our eyes. However, the said test here may not catch similar cases because if the ifdef were setup properly, it would have never had a elsedef. I fixed the problem further up in code by changing:
elsdef FREEBSD or SUNOS then
to
elsedef BSD or SUNOS then
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