Re: Now that SCM type is a union...

[Ken Raeburn]

On Aug 14, 2011, at 22:04, Ken Raeburn wrote:
>>> * Shouldn't there be testing to catch this?  (C89 mode, C99 mode,
>>> different C++ specs, enabling various compiler warnings -- for
>>> whatever compiler is in use -- and make them fatal, any interesting
>>> ways one might want to use libguile in an application that might
>>> stress compatibility issues.)  I mean automated testing, not just
>>> Cedric. :-)
>> 
>> Perhaps :)  Interested volunteers are welcome to set this up :)
> 
> I've done it before for other projects... you just need to add to the test 
> suite a few files to be compiled with certain compilers and compiler options 
> -- perhaps repeatedly with different options -- and make sure they compile.  
> If you want to get really fancy, link and run some trivial programs, but 
> generally compiling with lots of warning options is good enough, at least for 
> C.  For GCC, for example, I'd start with "gcc -Wall -Wextra -Werror 
> -pedantic" and "g++ -Wall -Wextra -Werror -pedantic", and add more 
> interesting options from there, then multiply that by the various "-std" 
> options available; the Solaris compiler has a different syntax for warning 
> options, but it too can be told to enable various warnings and make them 
> errors.
> 
> I'll see about setting up something simple...

Oh, hm, automake... on second thought, this might take a while....

Ken