Some comments on the ansi test suite

Raymond Toy <[email protected]> 08 Jul 2002 12:26:38 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.lisp.clocc.devel
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I've run the ansi test suite for the first time and have a few
questions about the various tests.

o What is the purpose of the character name tests
  (CHARACTERS-WITHOUT-GOOD-NAMES)?  Are names required for all of the
  possible characters?  I couldn't find anything that says so.

o What is ALLTEST-LEGACY- 1045, 1061, and 1073 testing?  These fail
  for me on CMUCL/Sparc, but presumably work on x86.  So what is being
  tested?  That it computes those functions correctly?

o ALLTEST-EQUALP-STRING-HASH isn't ANSI (uses :initial-contents
  keyword to make-hash-talbe)  (Already marked as a bug).

o ALLTEST-LEGACY-1666 examines the printed value of
  most-positive-double-float.  What is the purpose of the test?  That
  it can print it out?  That it prints it out correctly?

Ray


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