test for binutis

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Fri Oct 23 11:02:00 GMT 2009


Hi Rain,

> Is there a test set just for binutils like spec2000 for GCC?

Short Answer: no.

Long Answer: yes.

Really Long Answer: It depends upon what you mean by a "test set".  The 
binutils do have a set of testsuites that check the assembler, the 
linker and the other tools.  These are part of the binutils sources and 
consist of lots of small test files in the various */testsuite source 
directories.

But then GCC also has a similar set of testsuites and you did not 
mention these.  So perhaps you are more interested in commercial 
testsuites like Spec2000, EEMBC, PlumHall etc.  In which case the answer 
is that there is no such testsuite specifically for the binutils.  But 
all of these testsuites do still check two of the binutils main tools - 
the assembler and the linker - since they are used as part of the 
compilation process.

Cheers
   Nick



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