Improving libm-test.inc structure and maintenance

[David Miller]

From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com>
Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 11:13:52 +0200

> On 05/03/2013 06:03 AM, David Miller wrote:
>> From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
>> Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 22:46:55 +0000
>>
>>> I propose two main changes to how these tests are handled:
>>
>> I think this is a fantastic set of proposals.  Definitely a
>> significant improvement from the current situation.
>>
>>> It is of course possible also to split up libm-test so that the tests
>>> for each function are run separately (with or without also splitting
>>> up the auto-libm-test-* files).  I don't know if that's desirable.
>>
>> I wouldn't mind seeing them split up in a way that would allow
>> running more of the tests in parallel, but I that is very low
>> priority compared to the core parts of your proposal.
> 
> 
> I agree. And running them on my x86-64, they execute so quickly (less
> than a second) that splitting them up is not really worth it. I think
> building takes longer, so perhaps we could split it up into <math.h>
> and <complex.h> functions? Or something like that - but I wouldn't go
> so far as to split it for each function.

You're right, building time far exceeds execution and Joseph's changes
to a table based approach will fix that.