Re: Testing a compiler for standards compliance

From:
Victor Bazarov <v.bazarov@comcast.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:43:17 -0400
Message-ID:
<lnn3al$969$1@dont-email.me>
On 6/16/2014 10:43 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Victor Bazarov <v.bazarov@comcast.invalid> writes:

On 6/13/2014 3:46 PM, Matt Gregory wrote:

Is there some sort of test suite that checks how standards-compliant
a particular C++ compiler is?


I think this question comes up now and again, but I don't remember it
answered positively, ever.

There is a reason for absence of such a test suite, and it's pretty
simple, really. There is nobody (besides compiler vendors themselves)
interested enough in investing what would turn out a serious amount of
work into creating such a suite. So, independently it is not likely to
exist, and those suites that compiler creators have for their internal
consumption, aren't published because they are proprietary information,
not to mention that they are likely specific to the testing tools in use
(which are probably proprietary as well).


FWIW, GCC's test suite is available, but specific to GCC.


So, if one wanted to create something independent from the vendor, one
might use GCC's test suite as the starting point.

V
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