Re: Jikes RVM & mauve tests

[Eric Blake]

Brian Jones wrote:
> David P Grove <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >      I've been experimenting a little bit with running Mauve tests
> > on top of Jikes RVM and GNU Classpath.  This generally does pretty
> > well, except that there are massive failures on
> > java.lang.Character.unicode ("make check
> > KEYS=!java. java.lang.Character" yields 136460 of 3603803 tests
> > failed).  Before looking into this further, I just wanted to verify
> > that the classpath libraries are expected to pass these tests.
>
>
> There may be Character problems... I tend not to run it because it (a)
> takes a while and (b) inflates positive results out of proportion with
> other class tests.  I believe this is another area where gcj/classpath
> differ as well.

I stand by the Classpath version of Character.  I updated it to 
correctly obey the same Unicode version as JDK 1.4, and verified 
everything against the JDK.  However, I never found the time to go and 
fix Mauve to do the same.  So the Mauve tests for Character are 
currently broken.

Back in Feb 02 or so, I posted a patch to gcj to "merge" as much of 
Character and String as possible between Classpath and libgcj, but it 
was never applied (back in the 3.1 days), so I would practically have to 
start the merge again to catch everything that has happened in both 
trees in the meantime.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
  BYU student, free software programmer