From octave-sources-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sun Apr 16 09:18:39 2000
Subject: Re: test scripts 
From: etienne grossmann <etienne at anonimo dot isr dot ist dot utl dot pt>
To: octave-sources at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
CC: etienne at isr dot ist dot utl dot pt
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 15:23:22 +0100 (WEST)


  Hello,

From: pkienzle at kienzle dot powernet dot co dot uk (Paul Kienzle)
#
#  Hi!  I've been toying with test scripts for the functions that I've been
#  writing.  That way, when I go in and change things or add new features, I       
#  can easily test if I've broken any existing features.  More importantly,        
#  if others modify my routines, they can easily test cases that they might        
#  not have thought of.  I quickly concluded that it would be best if the
#  test script is stored in the file itself.                                       
#
#  I wrote ftest, which extracts lines starting with ##! and 
#  evaluates them with eval().  It doesn't cope with syntax errors 
#  elegantly, but I wanted to throw it out there and get some feedback.
#
  
  Sounds like a nice way of having the function and it's test suite in
the same file.

  What version of octave do you use? With 2.1.19, I get :

======================================================================
c++ -c  -I. -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src -I../libcruft/misc  -I../glob -I../glob -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mieee-fp -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -fno-implicit-templates -g -O2 -Wall ./DLD-FUNCTIONS/ftest.cc
./DLD-FUNCTIONS/ftest.cc: In function `class octave_value_list Fftest(const octave_value_list &, int)':
./DLD-FUNCTIONS/ftest.cc:41: implicit declaration of function `int add_unwind_protect(...)'
./DLD-FUNCTIONS/ftest.cc:57: implicit declaration of function `int run_unwind_protect(...)'
./DLD-FUNCTIONS/ftest.cc:67: implicit declaration of function `int feval(...)'
./DLD-FUNCTIONS/ftest.cc:67: warning: cannot pass objects of type `octave_value' through `...'
/usr/local/include/octave/oct-obj.h:173: `octave_value_list::octave_value_list(int)' is private
./DLD-FUNCTIONS/ftest.cc:67: within this context
./DLD-FUNCTIONS/ftest.cc:45: warning: `enum Fftest(const octave_value_list &, int)::STATE state' might be used uninitialized in this function
make: *** [ftest.o] Error 1
======================================================================

  Cheers,

  Etienne



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