jacob navia wrote:
Quote:
Eric Sosman wrote: Quote:
>oksid wrote: Quote:
>>Hello,
>>>
>>I'm writing a C99 preprocessor and I want to check its
>>compliance with the ISO standard.
>>>
>>I would like to know what's the best C99 test suite ?
>>GCC seems to have a large set of test files. Is there
>>something better available ?
| >>
> Jacob Navia has published his C99 test suite in the
>currently-raging thread "C99 portability challenge." You'll
>have to make up your own mind about whether his conformance
>test is "better" than others you've found.
>>
| >
This is not true, as you well know. Nowhere did I
say that it is a "conformance suite".
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While it's true you didn't use the word "conformance" at
all, you did advertise the program as being able to "test"
whether a particular system did or did not have a C99 compiler.
Since a compiler is not a C99 compiler unless it conforms to
the C99 standard, any such test would necessarily need to be
a conformance test. Here's the syllogism:
Major premise: A test that indicates whether a given
compiler does or does not support C99 is a C99 conformance
test.
Minor premise: In JN's opinion, his program tests whether a
given compiler does or does not support C99.
Conclusion: Therefore, in JN's opinion his program is a C99
conformance test.
Q.E.D.
Perhaps if you'd spent a few moments pondering the difficulty
of the test you proposed to make, you'd have been less hasty to
make the attempt.
--
Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid
