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author | Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de> | 2017-10-12 10:00:10 +0200 |
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committer | Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de> | 2017-10-12 10:53:16 +0200 |
commit | ee537ea3dd964d4de3565a36b4857af31fb5a3f4 (patch) | |
tree | ad8b328a58469ca0632e3e61cd94f37c9d97cc25 /testsuites/ada/sptests/sp19/README | |
parent | ada-tests: Use _SUBDIRS instead of SUBDIRS (diff) | |
download | rtems-ee537ea3dd964d4de3565a36b4857af31fb5a3f4.tar.bz2 |
ada-tests: Move to testsuites/ada
This solves a build dependency issue, e.g. building tests before
librtemsbsp.a exists.
Close #3079.
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diff --git a/testsuites/ada/sptests/sp19/README b/testsuites/ada/sptests/sp19/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4fd698381e --- /dev/null +++ b/testsuites/ada/sptests/sp19/README @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +This is a "problem" test in Ada versus the C equivalent. In C, +we used macros to : + + + declare a LOT of local integer and floating point variables + + load them with values + + check them at certain times + + to avoid floating point operations on CPUs w/o hardware support + +The macros are not equivalent to subprograms doing the same thing. +We are trying to insure that the register set is fully utilized and +checking that it survives context switches. If the routines are +subprograms, then calling conventions and scoping rules apply. Thus +the variables do not exist throughout the entire life of the task +as in the C test. + +It seems to point out that although the conditional compilation +and macro capabilities of C are often abused, they do provide +capabilities which are difficult if not impossible to mimic entirely +with subprograms. |