Re: CVS commit: src

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 09:21:22PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> > We have nearly five hundred test files.
> 
> This is a problem why?

Because most of these are potentially a subject of similar hypothesis.

> > ... whereas the libc-tests should be strictly about functional verification.
> 
> This about functional testing. This is whether the environment code works
> with and without real locking, with and without "libpthread" present.

I'd say this is about non-functional testing, but this is just semantics.
The kind of granularity that is seeked here does not give that much useful
additional information. Alternatively, by linking the old "t_environment"
test with pthreads, we now know also whether this is caused by linking alone.

- Jukka.