RE: devchk ideas

"Jain, Nilesh" <[email protected]> Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:07:29 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lsb.test-suite
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 09:42 -0700, Banginwar, Rajesh wrote:
> No, this will work only with functions and global variables.
> 
> For macros, we will have to come up with different strategy. I believe
> except for integer, float or string macros, not much is tested in
> devchk. Many of the macros are marked as unknown for this purpose. I
> have one suggestion for this: For macros like #define foo bar we can
> introduce a new type string2 which will allow us to do string
> comparison. This is in addition to string type for macros like #define
> foo "bar". 

String comparison will not be possible because #define stored in the
database is not string identical, they are functionally identical.