OpenEuphoria

Re: garbage collector

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Dec 21, 2006
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Ricardo M. Forno wrote:
> Robert Craig wrote:
> > I use Watcom to build the official interpreter for
> > both DOS and Windows, but you can build the Euphoria 
> > interpreter using any of the C compilers supported 
> > by the Translator. All I really depend on for storage
> > allocation is the existence of a C malloc() or 
> > equivalent routine. 
> > 
> > (Trivia fact: I actually use Borland to
> > build the translator ecw.exe, just because it compiles
> > faster than Watcom, and also as a kind of regression self-test.)
> ...
> Hi Rob.
> Please, tell me what is a regression self-test.

In general, "regression" refers to a program failing
on test cases that it used to succeed on. "Self-test"
refers to a program that tests itself somehow.
euphoria\demo\sanity.ex is a good example of a program
that tests for regression by using lots of little
"self-tests" to check for failures.

When I run build.bat on Windows, the translator is
used to build a new interpreter and new translator.
The interpreter is built using the translator with
Watcom, while the translator itself is built using
the translator with Borland. So if I accidentally 
introduce a Borland-specific regression error in the translator,
I will probably notice it very soon because I will have
broken the ecw.exe translator executable itself.
I probably won't have to wait for a Borland user to 
report the regression bug.

(This incestuous build process is a bit hard to
fathom sometimes!)

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com