Martin Sebor wrote:
>
> Travis Vitek wrote:
>>
>>
>> Martin Sebor wrote:
>>> Travis Vitek wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Martin Sebor wrote:
>>>>> I added a new function, rw_fnmatch(), to the test driver. It behaves
>>>>> just
>>>>> like the POSIX fnmatch() (the FNM_XXX constants aren't implemented
>>>>> yet). While the main purpose behind the new function is to support
>>>>> STDCXX-683 it should make it easier to also implement a scheme like
>>>>> the one outlined below.
>>>>>
>>>>> Travis, feel free to experiment/prototype a solution :)
>>>>>
>>>>> Martin
>>>>>
>>>> What expression should be used to get an appropriate set of locales for
>>>> a
>>>> given platform? I can't really expect a filter for all UTF-8 locales to
>>>> work
>>>> on all platforms as some don't have those encodings available at all.
>>>> If
>>>> I
>>>> filter by language, then I may be limiting the testing to some always
>>>> correct subset. Is that acceptable for the MT tests?
>>> I think the MT ctype tests just need to exercise a representative
>>> sample of multi-byte encodings (i.e., MB_CUR_MAX between 1 and
>>> MB_LEN_MAX). There already is some code in the test suite to find
>>> locales that use these encodings, although it could be made more
>>> efficient. I don't know how useful rw_fnmatch() will turn out to
>>> be in finding these codesets since their names don't matter.
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>>> Travis
>>
>>
>> Actually, I think I meant to say single threaded tests. Those are the
>> ones
>> that currently test every locale. The multi-threadede tests already test
>> a
>> subset of locales, though the method for selecting those locales may vary
>> between tests.
>>
>> I don't think it is right to test a fixed set of locales based on
>> language,
>> country, or encoding. If you agree, then we probably agree that the
>> proposed
>> enhancement doesn't actually do anything useful [and I've wasted a bunch
>> of
>> time]. If this is the case, then we need to propose another solution for
>> selecting locales.
>
> I think testing a small subset of installed locales should be enough.
> In fact, for white box testing of the ctype facets, exercising three
> locales, "C" and two named ones, should be sufficient.
>
>>
>> If I am wrong, and it is useful for testing [and more specifically how it
>> would be useful for fixing STDCXX-608], then I'd like to hear how.
>
> What do you propose?
>
> Martin
>
>
Okay. I can live with that. Then the issue now becomes deciding which
additional locales to test. How about just testing all Spanish and German
locales?
Travis
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