On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:34:56AM +1100, Ben Elliston wrote: > > I've tried. The problem is communication between the DOS system (or > > emulator) and the host system. DOS isn't kind to networking, > > semaphores, or anything else that hints at multiprocessing. > > If you're trying to at least test code generation, etc., you could treat > the DOS system like a basic target board and cross-compile tests and > transfer them over a serial line to execute them. That's the way it was > done in the bad old days. > > However, it's just occurred to me that you are probably wanting to test > djgpp as a native compiler. Yeah?
What if you had a set of scripts that would fire up the DJGPP compiler inside a DOS emulator on a Unix/Linux/whatever box and execute that? Then if those scripts were named "gcc", "g++" etc. it would seem that you could test native compilation that way. I haven't tried to hack dejagnu in about a decade so I'm probably missing something, but it should be feasible.
