Re: [Iverilog-devel] do_include bug: FIXED

[Stephen W. <st...@ic...>]

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Cary R. wrote:
> --- Michael Witten <mfw...@MI...> wrote:
>> Could you just construct the path from the current working directory and
>> the qualified name used to run vvp_reg.pl?
> 
> This may be the best choice. I don't think we should build the code on the
> fly since that requires too much coupling to the driver program, but the
> driver program could provide the working directory to a script as needed.
> 
> There are a couple of different paths we could take on this. The script
> could create a file with the current path as a define that any test could
> use. Or we could make a macro that the the script would use to pass the
> value e.g.(-D@PATH@ in the *_regress.list). Either is probably acceptable.
> There may be other information we may want to pass as well.
> 
> Steve, do you have a preference?

I think this is a lot of hoopla for the testing of such a tiny feature.
I would rather not pollute the main test suite script for such rare
cases.

Maybe a better idea might be to come up with a test harness just
for testing the preprocessor. Use "iverilog -E" everywhere in that
script, and use gold files and a directory structure just for that
purpose. Then all the oddities of testing the preprocessor are
taken out of the main test bench. This preprocessor specific test
harness can be designed to be better suited to the needs of testing
a preprocessor (including its interaction with command line flags
and command files).

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