Pre-release testing

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Fri Apr 14 18:28:41 BST 2000


In message <15f008af49.sbrodie at sbrodie.cam.pace.co.uk>
          Stewart Brodie <stewart at eh.org> wrote:

> I suggest that somebody builds a simple file that just #includes every single
> OSLib header file to make sure you don't get compilation warnings or errors
> at that phase, and have the test file go on to attempt a declaration of each
> type provided by the library.  Now obviously, this would have to be
> automatically generated - unless we have any masochists here - but would
> hopefully prevent the problem with OSLib 6.00.

I thought much the same thing after I discovered the problems.

It wouldn't actually have caught one of the problems as it only
triggered when you used a particular macro as it was the expansion
of the macro that didn't compile.

Tom

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