On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 11:49 +0100, Julian Seward wrote: > > Maybe I should have made myself more clear. The comment in > > tests/vg_regtest.pl.in explains that stdout.exp files only can have a > > numeric suffix ([0-9]*), while stderr.exp files can have any suffix > > (*). If I understood the tests/vg_regtest.pl.in sourcecode correctly, > > both stdout.exp and stderr.exp files can now have any suffix. Is this > > correct ? > > I thought I only changed the stderr.exp to allow stderr.exp*, and > left the others (stdout.exp, post.exp) unchanged. But I can't > remember now. A bit of poking around with svn ann / svn log might > make it clearer.
When I was playing with post-processing of valgrind output a year or so ago I did get as far as being able to run the regression tests through my script which has the potential to make the tests simpler and more robust. The basic scheme was to run valgrind in xml mode and have a output filter to convert from xml back to "standard" output. The primary purpose of this was for parallel jobs, to have a single output file per job rather than per process but it also allowed you to pick and choose which output you wanted to see, it became easy to suppress things like line number and thread id's if required. Potentially each test could have a single sample output file and a file listing which elements of the output should be invariant. The code is basically there, the problem I had was a performance one, for the input size I wanted XML::Simple was taking in excess of a minute to parse the data, this wouldn't be a problem for the tests however. Of course all this might not help drd although it would be nice to see the xml output extended to allow higher level tools to be built on top of valgrind. Ashley, ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Valgrind-developers mailing list Valgrind-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-developers
