Hey Sébastien, The rust-dev mailing list has been abandoned since 2015. You'll likely get a much better response by posting your question on https://internals.rust-lang.org/
On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 11:34 AM, Sébastien Hinderer < sebastien.hinde...@inria.fr> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am a member of OCaml's developement team. More specifically, I am > working on a test-driver for the OCaml compiler, which will be part of > OCaml's 4.06 release. > > I am currently writing an article to describe the tool and its > principles. In this article, I would like to also talk about how other > compilers' testsuites are driven and loking how things are done in Rust > seemed natural to me. > > In OCaml, our testsuite essentially consist in whole programs that > we compile and run, checking that the compilation and execution results > match the expected ones. > > I tried to understand how tests are run for the Rust compiler but was > not able to get an overall picture. It seems there are special comments > to declare expected errors, for instance, but how do you deal, for > instance, with conditional tests that should be executed only on one > platform? > > Any comment / hint on this aspect of the test harness' design would be > really helpful. > > Many thanks in advance, > > Sébastien. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > Rust-dev@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev >
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