> On 08/23/2016 04:15 PM, Trevor Saunders wrote: > > > > I've certainly been tempted to take a stab at at least replacing the > > expect stuff with something else, it drives me kind of crazy to see how > > much testsuite time is spent running expect. Even if we can't do all of > > it, the vast majority is just run the compiler and grep dump files or > > the compiler's stdout / stderr. > Yup. When Rob was making noise about rewriting dejagnu I tried to steer > him a bit towards instead replacing the expect layer, but his plans > where more on the tcl/dejagnu side. I don't think anything ever came > out of that proposal. > > Expect is severe overkill for what we need and yes, it burns an amazing > about of CPU time for what get out of it. > > Jeff
True. I wasn't considering replacing the expect layer, just to overcome the limitation of auto-vect tests. This in itself is rather another hack but didn't have a suggestion what to replace it with. Regards, Robert
