Re: Proposed new API call: testcase group {begin|end}

[Jacob Bachmeyer]

Tom Tromey wrote:
> Jacob> Would passing a code block inhibit byte-compiliation?
>
> I have no idea.  At least for gdb, I tend to doubt it would matter.
Tcl's opportunistic JIT only applies to procedure bodies, so code 
running at top-level in a script file is never byte-compiled.

Thanks for the suggestion.  I have adopted it as "testcase group eval 
<name> { code goes here }" as a second wrapper around the internal API, 
where the consistency checks will be performed.

I will also implement "testcase group {begin|end} <name>" calls because 
those will certainly not impede the opportunistic JIT in procedures and 
are easier to make conditional on [testsuite can call api testcase 
group] if a testsuite wants to declare groups but also wants to still 
run under 1.6.2 and earlier.


-- Jacob