Regression testing EGCS cross-compilers

[joel@OARcorp.com]

On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Scott Howard wrote:

> The stdout/stderr stuff is important to diagnose where the failure
> occurred, but you also need the exit status of the application (the
> value returned to the OS when exit () is called) so the tests can
> determine whether a test passed or failed.

I have sometimes maed test suites call my_exit() instead of exit() and
simply printed the status when it was inconvenient to get it off the
target.  Since gcc can preinclude a header file, this is fairly painless.

--joel

> John Breen wrote:
> > 
> > From: Scott Howard <scott@objsw.com>
> > >The other way that might make it easy would be if
> > >there was a simulator available for the target hardware.
> > 
> > Could you expand on this a bit?  I don't have a simulator, but I do have
> > my processor connected to an emulator via the BDM port (mc68360).  What
> > results need to be grabbed?  Is it just stuff coming out on stdout?  Are
> > stdin or stderr used?
> > --
> > John A. Breen
> > jab3@hotmail.com
> > 
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