On Thu, 6 Mar 2025, Jonathan Wakely via Gcc-help wrote:
On Thu, 6 Mar 2025 at 12:48, Saifi Khan
<saifi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi:
With some comfort level in building GCC, i'd like to learn howto test GCC.
I'm particularly interested in
- testing the dev builds
- automation scripts
- parts specific to C++, libstdc++
Does anyone have a suggestion for a good starting point? Is there a framework and/or language one needs to learn to be able to effectively test GCC ?
Do you mean using the existing testsuite (which just involves "make
check") or developing new tests?
As part of the GCC build automation, i already do 'make check'.
I'm keen to learn how to write tests that test parts of GCC specific to C++, libstdc++. Hence my query, is there a framework and/or language that one needs to learn to be able to write tests ?
https://gcc.gnu.org/testing/ is somewhat out of date, but might be interesting.
Thanks for the link. The page lists out multiple packages that may be compiled with GCC. That's an interesting proposition.
In addition, i noted that one of the link points to 'Laminar CI'
https://github.com/ohwgiles/laminar
Is this something that is something that is part of GCC CI tooling ?
warm regards
Saifi.
