Re: New mathetests - please send comments

[Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>]

>>>>> Andreas Jaeger writes:

 > I've put on ftp.suse.com a version of my current development version
 > of the new mathtest:

 > <ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/aj/mathtest-19991007-1650.tar.gz>

A new version should be available soon:

<ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/aj/mathtest-19991008-1625.tar.gz>

 > The suite isn't finished yet - but it's in such a shape that I'd like
 > to get your comments.  Just unpack the sources, type make and run the files.

 > The file Epsilon is a platform specific file that contains limits for
 > the different functions and calls.

 > Please note that I still need to do at least the following:
 > - convert all test from libm-test.c
I've converted some more.
 > - handle inline tests
Done.
 > - incorporate the suite in glibc (this includes searching for the
 >   platform specific epsilon file)
 > - clean up the different files
 > - document everything

 > The tests have two different options:
 > --verbose=0,1,2 (0 is silent, 1 is just Failures and XPasses, 2 is
 >   everything)
 > -u: Creates an epsilon file that can be read in again (filename ULPs)
 >   with all errors in it

 > I've added the possibility to signal some tests as failing (just write
 > e.g. "double: fail" in Epsilon for one test).  This allows us to
 > document known problems instead of using high ulp numbers.

 > Uli suggested to generate the needed included files during `make
 > check'.  This means that the user needs to have perl installed.  Since
 > this is only a test, I don't see a problem here.

 > Please speak up if see any problems with the suite or if anything is
 > missing.
The rest still applies;-).

Andreas
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