On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 11:25 PM, Mike Stump <mikest...@comcast.net> wrote: > On Jul 26, 2017, at 9:00 AM, Pierre-Marie de Rodat <dero...@adacore.com> > wrote: >> At the last GNU Cauldron, Richard Biener and I talked about DWARF output >> testing. Except for guality tests, which are disabled on several >> targets, the only way tests check the DWARF is scanning the annotated >> assembly (-dA), making it hard to write reliable tests. > >> Anyway, Richard and I discussed about doing something similar in-tree, >> and here is a candidate set of patches to achieve that > > I'm fine with the direction if a reviewer wants to go in that direction. I > wish python didn't have a built-in speed penalty, that's the only downside I > don't like about it. Aside from that, even switching all of the testsuite to > be python based isn't a terrible idea.
But is it worse than TCL? Richard.