"James K. Lowden" <jklow...@schemamania.org> writes: >> Having a minimal harness in GCCs testsuite is critical - I'd expect a >> gcc/testsuite/gcobol.dg/dg.exp supporting execution tests. I assume >> Cobol has a way to exit OK or fatally and this should be >> distinguished as testsuite PASS or FAIL. > > Yes, a COBOL program exits with a return status. And we rigged up NIST > to do that. What that means requires a long explanation, sorry.
Regardless of the NIST usage you will need a frame work of GCC specific COBOL tests. You are expected that for every bug that you fix that wasn't detected by NIST you add a test case. Surely you have some of those already? -Andi
