2011/5/20 Nicola Pero <nicola.p...@meta-innovation.com>: > I'd like to show you a testcase, but, as you discuss in your other email, we > can't > really write GTY testcases at this stage. So here is a walked tour of how to > test > the new atomic option -- [...] > To test that the GC marking actually works, I mostly bootstrap the compiler > first, then test compiling a few > testcases using --param ggc-min-expand=0 --param ggc-min-heapsize=0. This is > by no means a full test; if you > or Laurynas have any suggestions on how to test better, they'd be welcome. :-)
I think this is about the best GTY testing one can do right now. We ought to have some support in testsuite (not only for plugins, so more like unit tests), but well, currently we don't. -- Laurynas
