Re: Unit testing a compiler

From	Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: Unit testing a compiler
Date	2013-03-19 18:02 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<13-03-015@comp.compilers> (permalink)
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"Rafael R. Sevilla" wrote:

> I am currently writing a simple byte compiler for a simple dialect of
> Lisp, and am wondering what is the best practice for testing such a
> compiler.  ...

My compiler regression tests are run through a simulator and a report
generated for each test of go/nogo for compile/link and correct
execution as well as code size, ram requirements and execution time
output in a cvs file. This can then be added to a progress summary
spreadsheet to track progress.

w..

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Unit testing a compiler "Rafael R. Sevilla" <dido@imperium.ph> - 2013-03-13 11:50 +0800
  Re: Unit testing a compiler BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2013-03-13 02:59 -0500
  Re: Unit testing a compiler Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> - 2013-03-13 18:58 -0400
  Re: Unit testing a compiler Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2013-03-19 18:02 -0500

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