Re: patch for and question about ansi-test

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

> * In message <20011013211417.B20956@rootless>
> * On the subject of "patch for and question about ansi-test"
> * Sent on Sat, 13 Oct 2001 21:14:17 -0500
> * Honorable William Harold Newman <wil...@ai...> writes:
>
> The patch is represented as a combination of a context diff and a
> script (both attached). To apply the patch, first apply the context
> diff with "patch", then run the script in the ansi-test directory.
> (The script replaces every MY-ASSERT call with a CHECK-FOR-BUG call
> with a unique BUGID value. I've supplied the changes in this compound
> form, rather than just as a single context diff, because there are
> almost 10,000 MY-ASSERTs in ansi-test, so that the context diff would
> be more than 2.5 Mbytes.)

You did a lot of work.

You are proposing a significant change.
If we do such a large change, I would rather make ansi-test use clunit.
There are many benefits to this, especially in the area that bothers you
most.


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